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false sharing

false sharing noun: a performance-degrading usage pattern where the size of units in a cache means that the system may reload entire units even when it is not necessary.

Noun

false sharing (uncountable)

  1. A performance-degrading usage pattern where the size of units in a cache means that the system may reload entire units even when it is not necessary.

Questions about false sharing

What does false sharing mean?
False sharing means a performance-degrading usage pattern where the size of units in a cache means that the system may reload entire units even when it is not necessary.
What part of speech is false sharing?
False sharing is a noun.

Words near false sharing in the dictionary

  1. false scorpion
  2. false scorpionfish
  3. false scorpions
  4. false sergeant
  5. false sergeants
  6. false sharing
  7. false shower
  8. false showers
  9. false signal
  10. false signals
  11. false start

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