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In other words, when working with a gigabyte of memory on that machine, a single instruction with a cache miss might cost the time of almost 1100 instructions to (in extreme cases) almost 8800 instructions.
 
Of course, the above simplifications focused purely on a single cpu architecture, and ignoringignored variations in memory architecture.
 
And there are other issues -- for example, when two different cores are accessing the same memory, that tends to introduce cache management conflicts which slow things down.
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