[digi_owl]

Anyone have the presentation from a Intel guy on how the CPU design focus has moved from cycles to cache misses handy?

Edit: never mind, it was not a Intel guy. And i actually had the thing bookmarked (and it still worked).

https://www.infoq.com/presentations/click-crash-course-moder...

[vcarl]

There's a fantastic, massively upvoted StackOverflow post that can also provide some insight here. This may be a little more accessible, since it's such a significant runtime difference with very simple source code.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11227809/why-is-it-faster...

[globuous]

Thanks so much for sharing this, great read !

For those, like me, that want to play with what this stackoverflow talks about, here's a fiddle of it: https://jsfiddle.net/tbinetruy/Latkmk2q/1/ (code takes 2s to run and loads firebug for console logs).

[woliveirajr]

The question is very interesting and good phrased, and the answer is better than many classes that many students had about processors and so on.

[vvanders]

That's a great talk, brings together a lot of different things I've seen in one place.