I'm no hardware nut, but..
I'm no hardware nut, but..
Posted Oct 2, 2008 9:35 UTC (Thu) by xav (guest, #18536)In reply to: I'm no hardware nut, but.. by dw
Parent article: Low-level tracing plumbing
Nowadays, optimizing for size is what counts the most. The few cycles you spend at packing and unpacking data (or recomputing it in some cases) are well repaid by the huge number of cycles waiting for the memory controller you gained.
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