Where can I learn... what a cache hit / miss are? what branch predictions are / how they work? the number of cycles the different assembly calls take? how the os (windows) manages memory? how memory paging works? I''ve read lots of articles about STLPort / new compiler optimizations and many of these concepts came up, and I was clueless. Also, I''d like to be able to write code that avoids cache misses / branch mispredictions / unneccessary paging, etc... What are some good resources to learn this sort of stuff, I''ve been looking for a while but I can''t really find anything directed at a programmer.