"The article seems to suggest that the loop buffer provides no performance benefit and no power benefit." It tests the performance benefit hypothesis in differ

"The article seems to suggest that the loop buffer provides no performance benefit and no power benefit." It tests the performance benefit hypothesis in different scenarios and does not find evidence that supports it. It makes one best effort attempt to test the power benefit hypothesis and concludes it with: "Results make no sense." I think the real take-away is that performance measurements without considering power tell only half the story. We came a long way when it comes to the performance measurement half but power measurement is still hard. We should work on that.