Top "Cpu-cache" questions

A CPU-cache is a hardware structure used by the CPU to reduce the average access memory time.

Is it possible to lock some data in CPU cache?

I have a problem.... I'm writing a data into array in the while-loop. And the point is that I'm doing …

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Which ordering of nested loops for iterating over a 2D array is more efficient

Which of the following orderings of nested loops to iterate over a 2D array is more efficient in terms of …

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How can the L1, L2, L3 CPU caches be turned off on modern x86/amd64 chips?

Every modern high-performance CPU of the x86/x86_64 architecture has some hierarchy of data caches: L1, L2, and sometimes L3 (…

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How does CLFLUSH work for an address that is not in cache yet?

We are trying to use the Intel CLFLUSH instruction to flush the cache content of a process in Linux at …

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