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2026
- The Grain of the Machine
A processor isn't a featureless calculator — it has a shape: words, cache lines, vector lanes. Code that moves with that grain runs many times faster than code that fights it, on the very same data. Here's the shape, and a measured case where the same arithmetic runs 22× slower against it.