"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message
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> The info on TLBs was quite interesting too. And all that NUMA stuff too.
> But you begin to wonder what us programmers can actually *do* about all
> this stuff.

NUMA's pretty important when writing server-type apps. The main point around
Numa is that memory local to the node is orders of magnitude faster to
access than remote memory.

I don't know anything about NUMA support in the unix/Mac OS. I'm sure there
must be some.

In windows, the memory allocation APIs must be called differently when
working with NUMA than with symetric multiprocessor archtectures. If you're
interested, I can dig some details out of a book I have. It's at the office,
so I can only check tomorrow.

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