Introduction to caches, was [Texmacs-dev] Scrolling speed

[Gregory Wright]

On May 28, 2004, at 5:24 AM, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > Caches are exploiting spatial and temporal locality. Caches take into
> > account physical memory accesses and do not consider how this physical
> > memory is distributed into the virtual address space of the
> > program. So malloc has little to do for cache locality.
>
> Do you have a good reference on how modern memory works more precisely?

Hi Joris,

The best reference for getting up to speed quickly is "Elements of  
Cache Programming Style"
by Chris Sears:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als00/ 
2000papers/papers/full_papers/sears/sears_html/


I found it quite useful when I was trying to speed up some network  
packet processing code.

Best Wishes,
Greg Wright

Gregory Wright
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