> Is unoptimized code really that bad? Most application code is far worse and stalls (sadly - almost literally) every few instructions for L2 / memory. > (Cod

> Is unoptimized code really that bad? Most application code is far worse and stalls (sadly - almost literally) every few instructions for L2 / memory. > (Code is small relative to data, most of it should be in cache most of the time) Not if your application is dragging two and a half invasive runtimes around.