For an in-depth presentation on how we got to this point (cache misses dominating performance), there's an informative and interesting talk by Cliff Click calle

For an in-depth presentation on how we got to this point (cache misses dominating performance), there's an informative and interesting talk by Cliff Click called A Crash Course in Modern Hardware: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-crash-course-modern-hardware http://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-crash-course-modern... The talk starts just after 4 minutes in.