"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
"Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein
- chip memory bandwidth is around 6.5 MB/s with DMA turned off
- fast memory bandwidth is around 35 MB/s
- cache miss takes 23 cycles and issues 4 fetches 8-5-5-5
- MOVE16 is the only instruction which avoids reading in the cache line it is writing to