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Its not a bad idea. I did it myself in 98, down to making data fit in the L3 cache. Memory optimisation isn’t really new.
by ultrablack 7y ago
Its not a bad idea. I did it myself in 98, down to making data fit in the L3 cache. Memory optimisation isn’t really new.
- rumanator 7y agoThe concept of cache misses and the importance of cache locality is nothing new. That's HPC 101. Demonstrating that in the real world a specific data structure performs far better than the theoretically optimal data structure is not. That's novel, unless you can find any prior work that presents the exact same findings. That's one of the main problems with ivory tower types: claiming that a novel poem is nothing new because all the words in it were already known and even published in a few dictionaries.
- nol3cachein1998 7y agoI'm calling BS because there was no L3 cache in 1998, Pentium pro only had l2
- saltcured 7y agoAll the world was not x86. The DEC Alpha definitely had 3-level cache systems by the mid 90s, and I would not be surprised if other RISC systems did as well.