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I'm pretty sure the smallest addressable unit of RAM in modern computers is a whole cache line (64 bytes).
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I'm pretty sure the smallest addressable unit of RAM in modern computers is a whole cache line (64 bytes).
- rrix2 8y agoWhile being technically correct, that is still much smaller than 512 or 4K blocks.
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- CyberDildonics 8y agoActually 64 bytes is the false sharing boundary - on modern CPUs addressing a single byte not in cache will pull down 128 bytes.