Languages I have had to invoke Greenspun's tenth rule on

[maradydd]

• C
• Lua

Comments

[mentalguy.livejournal.com]

These days, replace "RAM" with "instruction cache". Cache misses really hurt.

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Indeed. I have disabled cache on pc's just to see how much the performance drops. Tip: don't do this with an o/s that boots into a gui.

I've also done a fair amount of embedded kernel development so I've benchmarked the differences between cache on and cache off at boot time.