Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 May 2008 15:29:33 +0200 | From | "Bart Van Assche" <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] kmemcheck v7 |
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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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