A technical publication covering cache associativity, TLB misses, spatial/temporal locality, and hardware prefetching strategies.
#include <vector>
// Demonstrating cache-friendly row-major traversal vs column-major cache misses
void optimize_cache_locality(std::vector<std::vector<int>>& &matrix, int n) {
for (int i = 0; i < n; ++i) {
for (int j = 0; j < n; ++j) {
matrix[i][j] *= 2; // Contiguous memory access -> High cache hit rate
}
}
}How layout design affects cache line utilization, prefetcher efficiency, and SIMD vectorization throughput in high-performance loops.
How huge pages (2MB/1GB) reduce Translation Lookaside Buffer overhead and prevent costly page table walks in large databases.
A practical walkthrough measuring instructions per cycle (IPC), cache-miss ratios, and hardware performance events on modern CPUs.