On 18 Jul 2013, at 13:44, Mircea Markus <mmarkus(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Can anybody think of some reasons why the value is kept twice? I mean
besides optimising for local gets, which I think is not a good enough reason given the
potentially huge memory consumption and the complexity added.
It is just to optimise for local GETs and GETs which hit L1.
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Manik Surtani