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I wonder if it would be possible to fit an entire webserver and web framework runtime into L2 cache? (I'm thinking Lua VM or something like that.)

EDIT Xeon 3050 has 2MB of L2 cache, so the answer is probably yes!

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Out of curiosity, do you get to directly place code on the L2 cache through the Lua VM ? Is that a module ? If so, what is this voodoo and where can I find it...

No, I'm just thinking that one could minimize cache misses a whole lot.

You don't need to store the framework you are sending to clients in the CPU cache - a good network card can read the data directly from disk, or main memory and send it off, bypassing the cpu.

That's useful. I was thinking mainly of the actual server-side app server and not what would count as its payload.

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