Do you really think there's such a thing as "right," unless you're talking directly observable physical phenomena?

 

Aaand that was supposed to be reply to Richard only. Please let's not have a metaphysical discussion on this list, OK?

 

Sincerely,

 

jw

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On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Jon Watte <jwatte <at> gmail.com> wrote:

Just because the world is full of people that think just like you, doesn't mean the other ones can't be right.

 

Do you really think there's such a thing as "right," unless you're talking directly observable physical phenomena?

 

Sincerely,

 

jw

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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Richard Fabian <raspo1 <at> gmail.com> wrote:

Any development approach where you don't consider the effect of the cache is going to have inferior performance to one that either implicitly, or explicitly, takes advantage of the cache.

I do feel like we've been taught a lot of really good coding techniques that have ignored this issue. It doesn't mean that the code oriented techniques aren't good, for fast memory hardware our coding style and experience is invaluable.

On 1 July 2010 06:12, Richard <legalize <at> xmission.com> wrote:

I stumbled across this today and found it an interesting read.
<http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1814327>

It relates to our "virtual function calls are bad!"[*] discussion
earlier.

[*] they're not really bad, its cache misses that are bad.

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