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by IX-103
541 days ago
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The main benefit from contiguous storage is it can be a better match to the cache. Modern CPUs read an entire cache line in a burst. So if you're iterating through a contiguous array of items then chances are the data is already in the cache. Also the processor tends to prefetch cache lines when it recognizes a linear access pattern, so it can be fetching the next element in the array while it's working on the one before it. |
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