https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/f6d5/e754da444b7ede6e4eeaf0d61e8cbb82ade9.pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.02318 so, the compression and something called macro-op fusion results in a significant reduction in code size that happens also to result in less cache usage and also faster execution time. how about that, huh? :) l.