🔧 What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory Part 4

What Programmers Can Do: Writing Hardware-Sympathetic Code


In the previous article, we learned that memory geography matters. Now, we arrive at the finale—the most actionable part of Ulrich Drepper's paper: Section 6.

This is not about choosing a better algorithm (O(n) vs O(log n)). This is about writing code that respects how the hardware...