In an older paper I've read that instruction cache misses can take up to
Stephan
There is no answer to this question, as it can vary so wildly. Differentiating factors include the speed of the processor, the speed and latency of the memory, contention for the memory buses, the types of cache, the associativity of the cache, and the type of code that is running. Add to that mix the latency of branch misprediction (which is often associated with cache misses) which varies hugely according to the processor, and you have an cycle costs varying from about 2 to 200.
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