Reading and writing are less symmetric than you (probably) think

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• 1317 7 minutes ago
  oh i thought this would be about language and how the brain works, that article sounds more interesting to be honest sorry
• vatsachak 27 minutes ago
  This is true even at the CPU cache level so it's probably going to trickle down all the way.

  For example Jon G gave a talk at Jane Street about how he had a mysterious performance bug that was later attributed to cores fighting over the same cache line

  https://youtu.be/tND-wBBZ8RY?is=624w3YoDN2QYBWuD