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TheLoneWolfling on Dec 3, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The “Uncanny Valley” of L3 Cache Contention

Huh.

Now that I look at it, you can actually see the effects of it on the graph in the article. Look at scalability at 128k and 256k.

djcapelis on Dec 3, 2014 [–]

Yes, also notice how those dips show up more for even numbers of threads than odd numbers of threads. :)

That system is hyperthreading.

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