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What would it take to get it to be 1 cycle/value? Does 1 cycle here mean 1 instruction? If not, how many instructions does it allow? It's just a matter of copyi

• twoodfin 6y ago
  Modern superscalar CPUs with multi-layer caches, hyperthreading, vector extensions, ... have an incredibly complex, dynamic relationship between cycles and instructions executed. For any particular implementation of a tight inner loop like this, you could measure IPC via internal counters and it would be quite consistent, but it’s really hard to estimate without them. And does it matter? Ultimately you care about how many cores at how many GHz you need to get the job done.