POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Processor speed : Re: Processor speed Server Time
6 Sep 2024 19:23:41 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Processor speed  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 28 Oct 2008 15:50:10
Message: <49076cf2$1@news.povray.org>
>> Obviously, cache behaviour is something I have absolutely no control 
>> over, so there's no point worrying about it.
> 
> Not entirely true;

Well, no. You can use large arrays and access them in a specific order 
in an attempt to improve cache coherancy. But beyond that, in a GC 
language where the runtime randomly allocates and rearranges data in RAM 
from time to time, you really have very little control.

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