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From: minforth@gmx.net (minforth)
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Subject: Re: Parallel Forth on a 44 core machine
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 14:01:04 +0000
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On Sun, 18 Aug 2024 13:33:27 +0000, mhx wrote:
> What I meant is severe slowdown when reading variables that are
> physically *close* to variables that belong to another process.
> It happens for both AMD and Intel on both Windows and Linux.
> Spacing such variables farther apart has dramatic impact but
> is quite inconvenient in most cases.

IIRC I once read a recommendation to group shared variables in
(larger) structs. With structs you have control over their memory
spacing and improve cache behaviour.