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Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018)
As a computer engineer who has spent half a decade working with caches at Intel and Sun, I’ve learnt a thing or two about cache-coherency. This was one of the hardest concepts to learn back in coll…
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On Hacker News
| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 20, 2019 | Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018) by noego | 366 | 119 |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018) by whack | 176 | 138 |
| Oct 31, 2025 | Myths Programmers Believe about CPU Caches (2018) by whack | 156 | 26 |
| Aug 2, 2018 | CPU cache misconceptions, and the MESI cache coherence protocol by ingve | 87 | 15 |
