Although we miss the cache less with larger cache lines, larger lines also result in more traffic since the cache must load more data per miss (and we don't use all the data in the line).
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There is an optimization for caching where the critical word is brought into a cache line first, then the rest of the data is loaded some time later. I wonder if there is a version of this where the bus traffic would happen to each processor a bit at a time, rather than in one large chunk.
Although we miss the cache less with larger cache lines, larger lines also result in more traffic since the cache must load more data per miss (and we don't use all the data in the line).
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There is an optimization for caching where the critical word is brought into a cache line first, then the rest of the data is loaded some time later. I wonder if there is a version of this where the bus traffic would happen to each processor a bit at a time, rather than in one large chunk.
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