What Every Programmer Should Know About MemoryWhat Every Programmer Should Know About Memory Ulrich Drepper Red Hat, Inc. drepper@redhat.com November 21, 2007 Abstract As CPU cores become both faster and more numerous, the limiting factor for most programs is now, and will be for some time, memory access. Hardware designers have come up with ever more sophisticated memory handling and acceleration techniques–such as CPU caches–but these canno
