What is the Cost of an L1 Cache Miss?

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Edit: For reference purposes (if anyone stumbles across this question), Igor Ostrovsky wrote a great post about cache misses. It discusses several differen

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Well yeah that does look like it will mainly be L1 cache misses.

10 cycles for an L1 cache miss does sound about reasonable, probably a little on the low side.

A read from RAM is going to take of the order of 100s or may be even 1000s (Am too tired to attempt to do the maths right now ;)) of cycles so its still a huge win over that.