Hi, Konrad Hinsen has just told me that my article "Why Modern CPUs Are Starving and What Can Be Done About It", which has just released on the March/April issue of "Computing in Science and Engineering", also made into this month's free-access selection on IEEE's ComputingNow portal: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/0310/whatsnew/cise On it, I discuss one of my favourite subjects, memory access, and why it is important for nowadays computing. There are also recommendations for people wanting to squeeze the maximum of performance out of their computers. And, although I tried to be as language-agnostic as I could, there can be seen some Python references here and there :-). Well, sorry about this semi-OT but I could not resist :-) -- Francesc Alted