Comment 19 for bug 411439

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In , Davem-redhat (davem-redhat) wrote :

Nobody will ever make a sparc V9 chip with an I-cache with line sizes
smaller than 32-bytes.

Doing it 8 bytes at a time is simply a bunch of wasted full pipeline flushes.

That's why we iterate 32-bytes at a time.