This research paper was presented at the 12 th International Conference on Learning Representations (opens in new tab) (ICLR 2024), the premier conference dedicated to the advancement of deep learning ...

The dynamic interplay between processor speed and memory access times has rendered cache performance a critical determinant of computing efficiency. As modern systems increasingly rely on hierarchical ...

Part 2 looks at the tradeoffs between program and data cache optimizations, and shows how to choose the best compromise. As we saw in the first two parts of this series, cache optimization is often ...