Re: [boost] [string] proposal

Subject: Re: [boost] [string] proposal
From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-29 04:42:45

On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Dean Michael Berris
<mikhailberis_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Try a simple benchmark: malloc a 1GB randomly generated file into a
> 64-bit multi-core Intel nehalem based processor, spawn 1,000 threads
> on Linux and randomly on each thread change a value in a randomly
> picked offset. This will show you how cache misses, VMM paging, and
> the cost of mutability of data will actually kill your efficiency. Now
> if you change the program to just randomly read from a part of memory,
> you'll see how immutability helps. Then change it yet again to malloc
> 1GB worth of data but this time on multiple files breaking them files
> up into smaller pieces. The dramatic improvement in performance should
> be evident there. :)
>

s/malloc/mmap/g :D

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