In part 1, we explained the rationale for using caches and showed how caches work. This week we explain how to minimize cache misses, giving some practical examples. As noted in part 1, cache misses ...

A processor cache is an area of high-speed memory that stores information near the processor. This helps make the processing of common instructions efficient and therefore speeds up computation time.

At some point, all developers of software applications, whether targeted to Linux or not, are likely to spend at least a small amount of time focusing on the performance of their applications. The ...

The dynamic interplay between processor speed and memory access times has rendered cache performance a critical determinant of computing efficiency. As modern systems increasingly rely on hierarchical ...

In the early days of computing, everything ran quite a bit slower than what we see today. This was not only because the computers' central processing units – CPUs – were slow, but also because ...