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Re:Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing? by tangentstorm on Monday January 08, 2024 @11:34AM (#38914482)
Is this something you can actually configure on modern processors, or is it more hypothetical advice for future chip makers?
Re:Why Aren't We Sieve-Ing? by vidarh on Monday January 08, 2024 @02:15PM (#38916668)
No, it's not. For starters because it's new, and second it's not a given it'd be useful for CPUs at all. Caches are used in all kinds of places, not just CPUs. E.g. operating systems, content delivery networks, databases, reverse web caches. There's a huge number of places for different kinds of cache algorithms, and the tradeoffs that works best varies a great deal depending on workloads and requirements (e.g. whether worst case latency, average latecy, or hit rate, or any number of other factors matters most)