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The real important bits: "Front-end CPU stalls - The workload wastes a lot of time in CPU instruction cache misses, instruction TLB misses, and to a lesser extent branch mispredictions".

My educated guess is that it relocates the hot path of the text segment to better pack into the instruction cache. Cool.




Sure does.




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