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While I totally agree with the argument that everyone should think sonetimes a bit more about the impact of his code (or the execution of it) the relationship b
by chrisandchris 6y ago
While I totally agree with the argument that everyone should think sonetimes a bit more about the impact of his code (or the execution of it) the relationship between your mentioned SO article and the gist ist close to zero.
There‘s no way from conclude from „memory latency“ to „branch prediction“.
- pvg 6y ago'Branch mis-predict' is the second item in the Latency Numbers thing.
- The_rationalist 6y agoThe actual number is not used on SO and moreover most of those numbers should be obscolete in 2020.
- pvg 6y agoYes, I sort of meta-agree with this in that the raw list of numbers regularly appearing on top of on nerd forums tends to generate more confusion than enlightenment. I have a comment downthread about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24675039 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24675039 Maybe the list should link the SO answer and similar descriptions of macro-manifestations of seemingly nano-things!
- chrisandchris 6y agoSorry - my bad. Totally overlooked that.