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sudosysgen on April 25, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: More on x86 – The Chip Letter

The L1 latency constraint is a size constraint - if you increase the L1 size, you simply cannot avoid increasing L1 latency.

gpderetta on April 25, 2024 [–]

That's what I meant: for performance considerations, L1 latency must be limited to single digit cycles on a general purpose CPU, hence L1 size is capped.

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