On: Exploring How Cache Memory Works

[CyberDildonics]

In practicality intel CPUs have pulled down 128 bytes at a minimum when you access memory for a very long time.

64 byte cache lines are there an part of other alignment boundaries for things like atomics, but accessing memory pull down two cache lines at time.

[Tuna-Fish → CyberDildonics]

Memory fetch length and coherency unit size are different things, and the latter matters much more.