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by ori_b 5350 days ago
Unless it bloats your data to the point where other stuff falls out of L1 cache.
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Let's not go too far with that. L1 cache started with 8K on i486. I'm talking about 256 bytes.
Current L1 caches are 32k. There's an awful lot of data that would like to be in there -- If you're going to talk about micro-optimization, it's something to keep an eye on.