At 08:16 PM 8/8/00 +0000, Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
>Caches work well with small-ish linear-ish hotspots that keep being re-used.
>When access pattern does not follow that pattern things get (gradually) worse.
>
>How gradual and how -ish depends on cache architecture which is
>fun, often proprietary and off-topic ;-) - I can write a quick "turorial"
>e-mail if there is general interest (and I must have a biblography somewhere
>at work).
It's not really off-topic at the moment, so posting it to get into the
archives would be a Good Thing, I think. (At some point we'll have to spin
off the -parser, -compiler, -optimizer, and -interpreter groups, but not
right now)
Dan
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