alt Hacker NewsCpus manage it, but ensuring your data structures are friendly to how they manage caches is one of the keys to fast programs - which some of us care about.
Cpus manage it, but ensuring your data structures are friendly to how they manage caches is one of the keys to fast programs - which some of us care about.
Absolutely! And it certainly is true that for the most performance optimized codes, having manual cache management would be beneficial, but on the CPU side, at least, we've given up that power in favor of a simpler programming model.