tasks in directory 9_exercises Task 1: Guessing from the graphs my Mac M4 probably has L1 Cache of size around 2^11=2048, L2 Cache of size around 2^17=131’072 bytes. I do not know how one would get the cache line size from the first plot or the associativy from the second one.
Task 2: took the solution from week 8 and tried to add fishing. time difference between std::list and penna_vec was quite minimal, with 10000 measurements only around 0.3 seconds at most.