> ... or is this more an artifact that even though the improvements for
> real-world are negligible, micro-benchmarks are susceptible to these
> variations this making things like the std. dev. larger than it would
> otherwise be?
Bingo. If you are trying to measure whether something adds cache misses
you really want reproducible runs.
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