Tag: virtual memory
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Primes, parallelism and caches Part I
Our first excursion is going to be into using the parallel processing capabilities of a modern PC. To have an interesting problem to work with, I will make programs to count the number of prime numbers less than a specified big number, like 100,000,000,000 (100 billions, or 1011). Which, by the way, is 4,118,054,813. The…
