Mechanical Sympathy

In high-performance computing it is often said that the cost of a cache-miss is the largest performance penalty for an algorithm.  For many...

A programming idiom I often see in managed runtime environments, such as Java, is to return a collection or array from a method that is ...

Modern CPUs employ lots of techniques to counteract the latency cost of going to main memory.  These days CPUs can process hundreds of instr...