On Fri, 6 May 2011 21:39:10 -0400 Glyph Lefkowitz <gl...@twistedmatrix.com> wrote: > > The assertion that "modern hardware" is not designed for big data-structure > pointer-chasing is also a bit silly. On the contrary, modern hardware has > evolved staggeringly massive caches, specifically because large programs > (whether they're GC'd or not) tend to do lots of this kind of thing, because > there's a certain level of complexity beyond which one can no longer avoid it.
"Staggeringly massive"? The average 4MB L3 cache is very small compared to the heap of non-trivial Python (or Java) workloads. And Linus is right: modern hardware is not optimized for random pointer-chasing, simply because optimizing for it is very hard. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
