On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 01:11:27PM +1300, Tim Penhey wrote: > I'm curious as the need to care about packing. In every C++ project I've > worked in before this has never been an issue. > > Why does it matter for drizzle?
cache misses are now the most expensive thing. if we put the most commonly used members together so they fit in the same cacheline, we can get large increases in performance. -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
