Timeline for Which opcodes are faster at the CPU level?
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| Feb 4, 2016 at 5:10 | comment | added | Peter Cordes | +1, dependent loads (pointer chasing) is a big deal. A cache miss will block future loads from even getting started. Having many loads from main memory in flight at once gives much better bandwidth than having one op require the previous to fully complete. | |
| May 4, 2012 at 5:54 | history | answered | Zoner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |