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Subject: Re: Speed and cache

Author: Tony Werten

Date: 03:24:38 01/29/01

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On January 28, 2001 at 21:43:52, Miguel A. Ballicora wrote:

>How can you say if I am handling my data structure properly in my program and
>not "thrashing" cache (L1 and L2)? Is there a way to know it?
>Sorry for this amateur question.
>
>I am using AMD K6-2 400 mhz.

Don't know about your K6-2 but mine has 64 Kb level 1 cache so it's quite
imposible to not thrash the L1 cache if you look at the amount of data a
chessprogram is throwing around.

Tony

>
>Regards,
>Miguel



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