Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Right. So just to make sure I understand this... you're saying the cache
> is managed in chunks of 32 bytes at a time? Like, if you fetch 1 byte of
> data from memory, 32 bytes will be loaded into the least recently used
> cache line? (Or whatever the cache policy is.)
> Are the cache lines aligned in any sort of way? (I'm wondering if it
> grabs 32 bytes at the nearest 32-byte boundary or not.)
You should read this article series if you want to know everything there
is to know about memory and cache:
http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/
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- Warp
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