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Accessing contiguous chunks of memory in order minimizes cache misses. It's not a whole lot more complicated than that.

This is a good intro video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16ZF9XqkfRY




woooh thanks a lot for that video! I hope this will bother donald knuth :)




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