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Re:Why databases use ordered indexes but programming uses ha... by loeg on Tuesday December 10, 2019 @12:34AM (#21749890)
Depends on your workload and how many TLB entries your CPU has for superpages. The Zen 2 TLB can hold tons (1000s) of 2MB superpages but relatively few (64) 1GB superpages. Older CPU models had worse capacity for 1GB and 2MB superpages. E.g., Haswell (2013) had only 32 entries for 2MB superpages and 4 entries for 1GB superpages (data).

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