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Huuuiuuge caches, and optimisations for using them as efficiently as possible: probably async prefetch, possibly a semblance of maskable cache, very likely reordering for cache missing ops.

Here, the prehistoric nature of x86 actually drags it down because of poor predictability



x86-64 is decently predictable, probably the same as armv8. i386 wouldn't be because it has to spill to memory so much you can barely manage to rename those registers.




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