Feel the cache size: a definitive experiment

Post by Jebdm » Fri, Jul 03, 2009, 8:49 AM UTC

surki wrote: post #5

if you want to know more on this topic "What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory" - http://people.redhat.com/drepper/cpumemory.pdf

Post by lallysingh » Fri, Jul 03, 2009, 10:41 PM UTC

mojuba wrote: post #12

lallysingh wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a shame that profiling/performance/cache utilization analysis tools aren't nearly as common/standardized as the rest of a developer's toolbox.

Valgrind/cachegrind are fairly common in the UNIX/C world. Our company uses it as part of the automated build/test run.