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more of a hardware problem... if CPU's let you directly address and manage L1, L2, L3 cache memory high performance programmers would love it and languages like
by soup10 7y ago
more of a hardware problem... if CPU's let you directly address and manage L1, L2, L3 cache memory high performance programmers would love it and languages like C++ would immediately add support.
- opportune 7y agoThere are tricks to pull chunks of memory into cache as is, no? Not that they are ideal.
- deRerum 7y agoAnyone can prefetch data into the cache, but letting programmers control cache eviction would open the door to all kinds of user errors which would kill performance.
- soup10 7y agotrue but it could also be very efficient, especially in cases where you have the exact hardware to test on like a game console