On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:42 PM, jb <jb.1234a...@gmail.com> wrote: > Follow up comment. > > It has been pointed out to me that there is Varnish software taking > advantage > of system VMM and swap space. > > Well, there are cache-oblivious algorithms that perform as well, and so > they > make the above (disk access model; cache-aware model) unnecessary > (obsolete ?) and are superior in their generality. > > Note that such cache-oblivious algorithms cannot be trivially applied to any problem. Also, properly written cache-oblivious algorithms tend to recursively decompose the problem until it is small enough to fit in a cache and solve each part iteratively. The improvement effect can be noticed on large inputs. These algorithms will most probably perform quite badly on small inputs.
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