alt Hacker NewsFrom your blog post:
> Random access from the cache is remarkably quick. It's comparable to sequential RAM performance
That's actually expected once you think about it, it's a natural consequence of prefetching.
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delusional • today at 5:22 AM
If that wasn't the case the machine would have to prefetch to register file. I don't know of any CPU that does that.
Heh. That line often gets called out.
Lots of things are expected when you deeply understand a complex system and think about it. But, like, not everyone knows the system that deeply nor have they thought about it!