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<node id="276164" title="Re: Out-Of-Date Optimizations? New Idioms? RAM vs. CPU" created="2003-07-21 03:19:07" updated="2005-02-06 10:02:35">
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Abigail-II</author>
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I'd say that algorithms that favour memory over CPU 
benefit &lt;em&gt;more&lt;/em&gt; from CPU caches than the other
way around. The larger the cache, the faster the average
memory access is, because it decreases the chance of a
cache miss.
&lt;p&gt;
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