On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 05:26:48PM -0800, David Lang wrote:
> This is becouse not all memory is equal, main memory is very slow compared
> to the CPU cache, so code that is slightly larger can cause more cache
> misses and therefor be slower, even if significantly fewer commands are
> executed.
Not all memory is equal here, either i.e. I'm on NUMA boxen.
Bill
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