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What every programmer should know about memory

Posted on January 3, 2014. Filed under: C/C++, Performance | Tags: develop, memory, OS, program |

This is a big document about how to improve program based on memory hardware implementation and software design/compile. (Arthur is Ulrich Drepper who was from Redhat)

The link on lwn.net is http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/

The outline is:

• Part 1 (Introduction)

• Part 2 (CPU caches)
• Part 3 (Virtual memory)
• Part 4 (NUMA systems)
• Part 5 (What programmers can do – cache optimization)
• Part 6 (What programmers can do – multi-threaded optimizations)
• Part 7 (Memory performance tools)
• Part 8 (Future technologies)
• Part 9 (Appendices and bibliography)

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