# Anything Specific to Multithreading?

- ## A common technique when a bottleneck is discovered is to utilize some high speed cache

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- ## However, in multithreaded processes, caches require mutex locks which can result in lock contention

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- ## The ensure high hit rate and low contention:

  - Write proper cache code!
  - Monitor hit rates and contention closely

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