What every programmer should know about memory

I found a pretty good document written by Ulrich Drepper about CPUs, caches and memory. The document can found here. Understanding the CPU and memory architecture of a modern computer is essential to writing fast code.

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I updated the license for code examples given on this page. They are now released under the MIT license, which grants everyone to use all examples free of charge in any non-commercial or commercial project. More details can be found on the Terms of Usage page.