On 03/11/2011, at 2:41 AM, Doug Baskins wrote: > I now struggle with CPU cache/TLB design flaws (I think) which are very > difficult-to-impossible to predict and/or program around.
Yeah, the smarter they make the hardware the harder it will be to make smart software. > The symptom is > an apparent TLB miss in the Text cache -- even when the Text working set > is using just 2 pages. So far this "flaw" has been present in all generations > of Intel CPU's since. AMD CPU's have been so slow, it is hard to tell. Of course .. everyone these days is using an ARM processor -- phones, tablets .. etc .. :) Laptops are endangered species except for old reptiles like me that can't type and wouldn't like to be caught doing gestures in polite company .. :) -- john skaller [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Judy-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/judy-devel
