Fewer Lines Same Bytes
A 32 KB, 8-way set-associative L1 data cache. A program chases a linked list of 32-byte nodes scattered randomly across a 4 MB heap, so successive nodes never share a line.
The architects propose growing the line size from 64 bytes to 256 bytes, keeping total capacity at 32 KB. What happens to this workload?
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