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Agreed. Completely misses on-die caches for instance. Article might have been accurate in the 6502 days, but not today.

Agreed. Completely misses on-die caches for instance.

Absolutely, except for the part where he mentions them

If you're really lucky and the value is in L1 cache, it'll only take a few cycles.
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