Isn't this a bit of a weird formulation? What matters isn't actually layout... what matters is access patterns. If you lay out a 32G array and access it randoml

Isn't this a bit of a weird formulation? What matters isn't actually layout... what matters is access patterns. If you lay out a 32G array and access it randomly you're not much better of that just doing loads of pointer chasing. (Alright, prefetching might help a little bit, but...)