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From: "Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org>
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Subject: Re: reading a text file into a string
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 02:16:02 +0100
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On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:34:29 GMT, <tmoran@acm.org> wrote:

>> RAM revolution that has been going on for the last two
>> decades ;-)
>>
>> My cheapo off-the-back-of-a-lorry PC has 1/2 GiB of RAM.

> And how much fast memory (ie, cache) does it have?

I'm not sure if you meant it, Tom, but that's precisely the
point.

Every machine has far less cache than main memory, but the
cache memory is much faster (and on an SMP machine, private
to each processor). So it can be a big advantage for the
compiler to generate code and object placements that make
optimum use of the cache (or to permit such placements).

-- 
Nick Roberts