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luckydude
on May 31, 2012
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Latency numbers every programmer should know
The lmbench loop for measuring memory latency is
while (n--)p = *p;
Out of order does not help, it can't. That was the key insight in that benchmark.
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while (n--)p = *p;
Out of order does not help, it can't. That was the key insight in that benchmark.