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Code size always matters. The code cache in the cpu is far from infinite and long jumps will stall. Sometimes vectorization can shrink code, so yay. And, like y

Code size always matters. The code cache in the cpu is far from infinite and long jumps will stall. Sometimes vectorization can shrink code, so yay. And, like you said, if performance increases, then yay again regardless of size.

ncmncm 5y ago
Code size always matters, except for all the times when it doesn't. Or when something else matters more. Code size matters less than it once did, now that we have bigger and smarter caches. But bigger, while sometimes big enough, is never big.