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Guessing, locality of reference might play a role.

• fleitz 12y ago
  That, the branch predictors, and caching behaviors, n-way, alignment, etc. It probably explains why different runs vary so widely, I always thought it was other things going on in the OS, never really thought about the caches, etc.
  • halayli 12y ago
    > That, the branch predictors, and caching behaviors, n-way, alignment, etc. Those all fall under locality of reference, btw. But yeah cache and branch prediction play a huge role in the list. One thing that stung me in the past was OS scheduling.