Memory efficiency, the Tertium Quid
Let’s put one thing out of the way: I hate the term memory consumption. I don’t think it’s relevant to anything. Likewise, I resent the terminology of processor time consumption vs. memory space consumption. Its all in the way you use that processor time or memory space: if use memory inefficiently, you’ll exhaust your cache, and your memory, and maybe start thrashing, and where is your performance now? Instead, I like the term memory efficiency. So now you clutch your (read more...)
By | January 8th, 2008 |
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