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"Caches are just tracking state for tasks, and unless you have actually done something to create locality between tasks there is nothing to make them stay hotter anyways."

This is only true if your data is small enough that it never gets evicted. Otherwise, there are certainly things that can make them stay hotter without involving multiple cores: You can shrink your data, reorder your data, or reorder your traversal of your data.




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