Sam Estep

Hi! 👋 I'm Sam (he/him) . I'm a software engineer at Main Street Autonomy , on leave from the Software Engineering PhD program in S3D at CMU, advised by Joshua Sunshine . My research specialization is programming language design and implementation.

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How much slower is random access, really?

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You may know that, because your computer has different caches (L1, L2, L3...), and memory operations operate on cache lines of about 64 bytes each, you should write programs that exhibit locality to get maximum performance.