> The only thing that's seen more impressive growth than memory volume is the relative cost of a cache miss.
Has the cost of cache misses truly increased? (Also: relative to what?)
Today's CPUs have far larger caches than in the past (and not to mention a lot faster too), so the number of cache misses and the time cost of each cache miss for the same program on a modern CPU should be much lower—right?
Has the cost of cache misses truly increased? (Also: relative to what?)
Today's CPUs have far larger caches than in the past (and not to mention a lot faster too), so the number of cache misses and the time cost of each cache miss for the same program on a modern CPU should be much lower—right?