Re:How Much Linear Memory Access Is Enough?
by twoodfin on Saturday April 11, 2026 @10:43AM
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Your results match similar analyses of database systems I’ve seen.
64KB-128KB seems like the sweet spot.
Re:How Much Linear Memory Access Is Enough?
by throwaway81523 on Sunday April 12, 2026 @01:32AM
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Doesn't it depend what you're doing? xz data compression or some video codecs? Retrograde chess analysis (endgame tablebases)? Number Field Sieve factorization in the linear algebra phase?
My concrete tasks will already reach peak performance before 128 kB and I couldn't find pure processing workloads that benefit significantly beyond 1 MB chunk size. Code is linked in the post, it would be nice to see results on more systems.