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Memory Management with Stephen Dolan

Signals and Threads

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Using a Garbage Collector to Create Cash Misses

The key insight here is to think about the things inside of your single computer as, in fact, a distributed system. The issue is the memory is very far away. You have a lot of band width, but the latency is high. And it's essentially the same story here, except the long latencies are all kind f on the scale of what fits inside your small computer. It's like a garbage collecter with a machine designed for creating cash misses, exactly.

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