I guess partially because it can quickly become very dependent on the system you work on. But if you're specifically interested in caching issues, one good keyw

I guess partially because it can quickly become very dependent on the system you work on. But if you're specifically interested in caching issues, one good keyword to look for is "cache aware algorithms" - or "cache oblivious algorithms". On the locking side, the counterpart would probably be "lock-free algorithms", but I still don't believe their complexity means that in most cases you shouldn't look at those :)