264 Week 12 notes

Comp 264-002, Spring 2019,MWF, 11:30-12:20, Cuneo 218

Readings (from BOH3)

Chapter 3:

Section 3.1
Section 3.2
Section 3.3
Section 3.4
Section 3.5




Chapter 6: The Cache

Temporal v Spatial locality

Memory pyramid:

memory pyramid

Memory mountain:

memory mountain

What is going on here? Height represents throughput, higher for caches.

"Prefetch line": back side, center left, perpendicular to stride axis and with throughput ~12.5 GB/s. Top edge of the "snowfield".




cache timings

Start at Seeing the Cache Size

Friday: finish matrix loop-reordering


malloc() and free()

sdir_free.c: one malloc() and one free(), both in printdir()

sdir_free2.c: the malloc() has moved to readdirentries().

sdir_free3.c: what about the malloc() in cat3()??

Why C can't have garbage collection