17 Feb 2010
Gallery of Processor Cache Effects

There's more to technical brilliance than, well, technical brilliance. Clear exposition helps, and this is the clearest exposition of processor cache operations I've ever read.

Most of my readers will understand that cache is a fast but small type of memory that stores recently accessed memory locations. This description is reasonably accurate, but the "boring" details of how processor caches work can help a lot when trying to understand program performance.

(link) [Igor Ostrovsky Blogging]

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