[adgjlsfhk1]

Absolutely! And it certainly is true that for the most performance optimized codes, having manual cache management would be beneficial, but on the CPU side, at least, we've given up that power in favor of a simpler programming model.

[bluGill]

Part of giving up is what is correct changes too fast. Attempts to do this manually often got great results for a year and then made things worse for the next generation of CPU that did things differently. Anyone who needs manual control thus would need to target a specific CPU and be willing to spend hundreds of millions every year to update the next CPU - there is nobody who is willing to spend that much. The few who would be are better served by putting the important thing into a FPGA which is going to be faster yet for similar costs.