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+Optimization
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+Needless to say that optimization is a rather important topic in HPC.
+
+A collection of code samples that illustrate opportunities for code
+optimization, or highlight potential performance bottlenecks.
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+What is it?
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+`GalleryProcessorCacheEffects`: C implementations of the code examples
+given in Igor Ostrovsky's interesting blog post on effects the various
+caching mechanisms in a modern CPU can have on performance.  See the
+following URL for his original post:
+http://igoro.com/archive/gallery-of-processor-cache-effects/
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