That's somewhat masked by the way the outer cache works. A cache line is going to load or store on ram boundaries, and the boundary depends if the cpu is dual channel, tripple channel, or quad...
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That's somewhat masked by the way the outer cache works. A cache line is going to load or store on ram boundaries, and the boundary depends if the cpu is dual channel, tripple channel, or quad...
I've used p-strings for text file sorting, replacing the newline characters with length counts. I read in the file at buffer +8, to leave room for the first count of the first record (at buffer +7)....
If the array of characters is always 255 or less in size, you can store the size in the first character. This is called a p-string (p for pascal).