Dr. Dobb's | Bit by the Cache | February 12, 2010

Bit by the Cache

While profiling the parallel list operators for Heron I kept running into some really unsettling results. Only getting 25-40% increase in speed for even the most trivially parallelizable computations, on my dual-core machine. The most likely culprit: the cache.

February 12, 2010
URL:http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/bit-by-the-cache/228700848