Stack, Heap, and Memory

Where your values actually live, why stack allocation is free, and what a segfault really means.

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Ulrich Drepper's long-form paper on caches, TLBs, and NUMA — the reason your array beats your linked list.

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Ulrich Drepper · people.freebsd.org

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Where your values actually live, why stack allocation is free, and what a segfault really means.

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