How Much Linear Memory Access Is Enough?

(solidean.com)

41 points | by PhilipTrettner 3 days ago

1 comments

  • PhilipTrettner 3 days ago
    I looked into this because part of our pipeline is forced to be chunked. Most advice I've seen boils down to "more contiguity = better", but without numbers, or at least not generalizable ones.

    My concrete tasks will already reach peak performance before 128 kB and I couldn't find pure processing workloads that benefit significantly beyond 1 MB chunk size. Code is linked in the post, it would be nice to see results on more systems.

    • twoodfin 2 hours ago
      Your results match similar analyses of database systems I’ve seen.

      64KB-128KB seems like the sweet spot.