> The main advantage of cache coloring normally is that benchmarks
> should get stable results. Without it a benchmark result can vary based on
> random memory allocation patterns.
>
> Just having stable benchmarks may be worth it.
I have noted in ctxbench that the SMP results have a vast performance
range while the uni (and nosmp) don't. Not clear if this would improve
that, but I sure would like to try.
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