ChipsDan Luuover 12 years ago
Data alignment and caches
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A toy benchmark shows misaligned memory accesses are faster than page-aligned ones for working sets larger than 8. The performance gap stems from how caches organize data, with direct-mapped and set-associative schemes affecting conflict misses. Real systems suffer disastrous performance from power-of-2 alignment.
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