No, it's not good at all. Cache stalls can easily account for 1/2 of your processing time. On top of that you have CPU pipelining and multi-issue CPUs. It was a

No, it's not good at all. Cache stalls can easily account for 1/2 of your processing time. On top of that you have CPU pipelining and multi-issue CPUs. It was a good idea a while ago, now it's really not that great.