Effects of Cacheing on Multitasking Efficiency and Programming Strategy on an ELXSI 6400

摘要

The impact of a cache/shared memory architecture, and, in particular, the cache coherency problem, upon concurrent algorithm and program development is discussed. In this context, a simple set of programming strategies are proposed which streamline code development and improve code performance when multitasking in a cache/shared memory or distributed memory environment. (ERA citation 11:018954)