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> If you’re hitting the allocator (slow!) then odds are pretty good those bytes aren’t fresh in the cache.

Incidentally, this is a great reason why GCs are useful even if you don't need the automatic memory management - a GC can allocate from memory that is always in cache, and they can do it in a couple of cycles.





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