>Same number of misses, but each miss is effectively half as costly Wow, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that. I was going to argue that in cases wher

>Same number of misses, but each miss is effectively half as costly Wow, I'm still trying to wrap my head around that. I was going to argue that in cases where there's no way to split an algorithm across multiple threads without extremely frequent IPC, pipelining can probably get better performance than multiple cores, but then I realized that I have absolutely nothing to base that claim on. I still wouldn't opt for more cores rather than higher clock speed without first trying to benchmark my expected workloads, but you have given me some very interesting things to think about.