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Re:Memory access on the Apple M1 processor on Saturday January 09, 2021 @11:03AM (#25701433)
Hi, Andrei here.

Just a clarification as to why the P per RV prange numbers are good: This pattern is simply aggressively prefetched by the region prefetcher in the M1, while Zen3 doesn't pull things in as aggressively.