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		Confusion on Oct 18, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Numbers Everyone Should Know Which is why the L1, L2 and L3 caches are there in the first place ;)

timf on Oct 18, 2009 [–]

One of my favorite modules in systems class was weeks of C programming competitions/exercises where we'd try to get the most L1/L2 based speedup in several challenges. Too bad I don't get to work at this level professionally that often.

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