{"id":55,"date":"2008-09-27T10:37:41","date_gmt":"2008-09-27T16:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2008-09-27T10:37:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T16:37:41","slug":"latency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/latency\/","title":{"rendered":"Latency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gotw.ca\/\">Herb Sutter&#8217;s site<\/a>\u00a0has some interesting material about CPU architectures. His article &#8220;The Free Lunch is Over&#8221; is a bit dated-everyone should know by now that multicore is upon us-but does a good job pounding home that concurrency is the way of the future (i.e., like, now). It also has some memorable lines, like, &#8220;Cache is King,&#8221; and &#8220;Andy Giveth, and Bill Taketh Away.&#8221; I contemplate the latter every time I open up a Word document and it takes 25 seconds to appear.<\/p>\n<p>What I noticed today, due to Eric Preisz&#8217;s new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indexbuffer.com\/?page=1\">indexbuffer site<\/a>, was that Herb has a newer presentation available, &#8220;Machine Architecture: Things Your Programming Language Never Told You.&#8221; This covers in-depth the topic of latency and how the CPU attempts to hide it. It&#8217;s worth a look if you&#8217;re at all interested in the topic; there&#8217;s material here that I hadn&#8217;t seen presented before. I skimmed over the odd things that compilers might do to code, I must admit, but overall I found it worthwhile.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Herb Sutter&#8217;s site\u00a0has some interesting material about CPU architectures. His article &#8220;The Free Lunch is Over&#8221; is a bit dated-everyone should know by now that multicore is upon us-but does a good job pounding home that concurrency is the way of the future (i.e., like, now). It also has some memorable lines, like, &#8220;Cache is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[94,95,93],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-bandwidth","tag-compiler","tag-latency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realtimerendering.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}