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by azernik 3698 days ago
More like TimeOfMemoryFetchInCycle - CyclesSpentDoingInstructions

But yeah, sounds like a useful metric to me.
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matt_d 3697 days ago
This discussion reminded me of a formula for calculating the average cost of a cache miss in this pretty cool paper ("An Analysis of the Effects of Miss Clustering on the Cost of a Cache Miss").

In particular, see Equation 4: http://researcher.ibm.com/files/us-viji/miss-cluster.pdf

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