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Re:GCC x86 Performance Hints (2012) by xxpor on Friday August 21, 2020 @11:04AM (#24235484)
The L1 icache on most Arm chips is still fairly tiny.

For example on the Snapdragon 865, it's only 64k. An i7-8700k (already 3 years old) on the other hand has 192k.

Re:GCC x86 Performance Hints (2012) by kjs3 on Friday August 21, 2020 @02:14PM (#24237413)
That's pretty meaningless. The effect of cache is very processor and ISA specific and has a log tail of value (as in, depending on the processor, X amount of cache may get you a 50% speedup, but 2 times X might only give you 60% so is the cost/benefit trade-off worth it). It's plausible that the i7 needs 3 times the cache to get the same benefit and the 64k in the 865. N.B. I don't know for sure that that is the case.