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In my experience, i$ is much bigger than everyone thinks, and they over-emphasize optimizing for it whenever someone brings up code size. It can soak up a lot.
by Jasper_ 7y ago
In my experience, i$ is much bigger than everyone thinks, and they over-emphasize optimizing for it whenever someone brings up code size. It can soak up a lot. That said, for JITs, where code is not accessed very often and in weird patterns, it can matter quite a lot.
- jcelerier 7y agohm, I've run a lot of profiling of various software through the years and never once instruction cache misses have been a problem, in large template-rich boostful C++ codebases