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Subject: Re: [boost] [review] Heaps
From: Tim Blechmann (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-03 15:09:35


> >> How would you specify locality? A metafunction on the object size and
> >> other configuration parameters (page size, cache line width, etc?).
> >
> > grouping more objects will make the algorithm slower in terms of
> > instructions, but faster since one will access multiple objects are in
> > adjacent memory regions ... i would simply expose this parameter to the
> > user and encourage experimentation ...
>
> Yes, but what form will the parameter take?

the number of objects per group ... like it is now




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