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Some early discussion and rough benchmarks can be found in #398.
The imprecision of the block cache operations is intentional and seems to be a key part of making this work. As mentioned in #398 (comment), it is very easy for a cache/junkyard to be counterproductive in the average case so I prioritized reducing contention over trying to reuse a block in every possible case. All of my attempts to increase the accuracy of the operations, such as by CAS-ing against null in
try_put
rather than blindly swapping, have resulted in worse benchmark performance. I have also not seen a positive effect so far from adjusting the size of the block cache in either direction.This needs more benchmarking, including on architectures other than x86-64.