Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 10 May 2008 15:29:33 +0200 | | From | "Bart Van Assche" <> | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7 | |
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> wrote:
> However, memory usage doesn't seem to be much of a problem. I actually
> think it might be worth saving the CPU cycles that are needed for the
> lookups/bit operations (memory is cheap, cycles aren't).
Keep in mind that a reduction in memory usage may reduce the number of
cache misses, and that the improved caching behavior may outweigh the
extra CPU cycles needed for the bit operations.
Bart.
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