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vhirtham edited this page Jul 9, 2018 · 2 revisions

These guidelines are taken from the paper "What every programmer should know about memory" from Ulrich Drepper.

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  • "Always move the structure element which is most likely to be the critical word to the beginning of the structure" (p.52)
  • "When accessing the data structure, and the order of access is not dictated by the situation, access the elements in the order in which they are defined in the structure" (p.52)

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