[_delirium]

Hmm, my undergrad algorithms class at least mentioned the existence of cache effects, though it didn't really go into any detail. It had a bit of disclaimer along the lines of: for simplicity, we don't take into account caches in this class, but more modern models of computation do, and for real-world applications you might want to look up cache-aware algorithms.

[stcredzero]

Hmm, my undergrad algorithms class at least mentioned the existence of cache effects, though it didn't really go into any detail.

There should at least be exposure on the level of a walkthrough of the optimization of a real-world server. There was a concurrency optimization video posted to HN a couple of weeks ago.

[gaius]

In mine, we learnt about the hardware, the cache hierarchy and so on, completely separately from the algorithms and complexity theory. Two different classes, two professors. Probably they both knew it themselves, but it never occurred to them to cross-pollinate their course materials.