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I took "Random access into the cache" to mean "random access of memory locations that are already in the cache".

That would be a cache hit rate of 100%. Which would imply that pointer chasing has seen none of the improvements that branch prediction has seen over that interval (see also, 'threaded interpreters' are now considered passé).

Is there a different interpretation I was meant to take from that sentence?



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