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Re: What every programmer should know about memory, in 2019?



On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 12:13:57AM +1100, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> On 25/10/19 1:22 am, Boyan Penkov wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Ulrich Drepper's piece on on-chip memory architectures is a
> > fantastic read, and I recently had the chance to revisit it -- 
> > https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf
> > 
> > I am writing to ask more knowledgeable folks if the last 13 years
> > have seen sufficient changes that render parts of this out of date
> > or misleading on 2019 hardware.
> 
> Well, I don't have any great insights here, but row hammer, spectre,
> meltdown and the like weren't a thing back then were it?

I guess they were "technically" possible back then, but not as important
as these days...

Cheers
-- t

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