Cache Miss, TLB Miss & False Sharing — The Performance Killers in 3 Minutes

Three invisible bottlenecks that silently destroy program performance — cache miss, TLB miss, false sharing — demonstrated with real C code and CPU counter data.

August 3, 2025
Harrison Guo
Video by: HarrisonSecurityLab
Published on YouTube: 2025-08-03
Performance CPU Cache TLB False Sharing C CoreTracer Profiling

Same code, different cache layout, 10× performance gap. This video runs three benchmarks back-to-back to show how cache misses, TLB misses, and false sharing each show up in perf counters — and why none of them are visible in a flame graph.

Part of the CoreTracer project: the kind of bottleneck that you can only debug after you know to look for it.

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