Excerpt: Memory-Related Bottlenecks by Shameem Akhter and Jason Roberts
Excerpt Description To improve an application's performance, attention should be given to memory-related bottlenecks. Multi-core processors can exacerbate memory problems unless care is taken to conserve memory bandwidth and reduce memory contention.
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by Shameem Akhter and Jason Roberts