I cited a paper here that says this is of limited value on modern Intel CPUs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16777564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id

I cited a paper here that says this is of limited value on modern Intel CPUs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16777564 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16777564 Although I think they are overgeneralizing the results... you probably still want it for other architectures.