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- Popular languages today support the
fiction of a simple programming model based on cache-less von
Neuman architecture. However, modern machines have caches and virtual
memory. It is important in terms of performance to arrange computations
so that cache locality is preserved. A motivation for the course should
follow here to make it obvious for the student, why he/she needs this
knowledge...
Darius Burschka
2002-01-20