real world performance includes software that can avoid cache misses (most games) and code that can’t (most compilers). It is good to make caches bigger and fa

real world performance includes software that can avoid cache misses (most games) and code that can’t (most compilers). It is good to make caches bigger and faster especially for less carefully engineered software which tends to have many layers of indirection, and a jit, and a garbage collector all putting pressure on the caches. smaller transistors helps us get bigger l3 caches which is something that helps zen2 compile code pretty fast! zen3 makes that l3 unified so it will be effectively bigger still making l1 and l2 caches bigger is problematic as that also makes them slower.