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by Ruud-v-A 3091 days ago
“Cache line sizes have not significantly increased since 2009, so 8 should still be optimal for 𝑟.”

Cache line sizes don’t change insignificantly — they change in powers of 2. Cache lines sizes for Intel x86_64 CPUs have not changed at all since 2009, it’s still 64 bytes.