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by tc4v 548 days ago
cache misses are slow because of latency, not because of throughput.
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geysersam 548 days ago
Isn't the point of the person you replied to that the article author wasn't able to eliminate latency because if they were they'd be constrained by throughput but they are not?
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eddd-ddde 548 days ago
cache misses can absolutely screw throughput because you may need to load more cache lines
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