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Re:What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf] by ummonk on Monday March 04, 2019 @06:39PM (#19306792)
You don’t need to know any of that to know that streaming access is more efficient than random access. You just need to know that caches cache localized blocks. Actually, you don’t even need to know that. You could even just be told that streaming access is faster than random access.
Re:What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf] by fizwhiz on Monday March 04, 2019 @07:00PM (#19306919)
This is how cargo cult programming begins.
Re:What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory (2007) [pdf] by arvinsim on Monday March 04, 2019 @09:24PM (#19307601)
It's called working on the relevant level of abstraction.