Each uncached TAG write costs ~810ns on the AXI bus. Removed: - 2 TAG writes per main loop iteration (Ch1 store + Ch0 pre-fire) - 2 TAG writes in prologue (group 0 load + pre-fire group 1) - 1 TAG write in epilogue (final store) Total: ~10,000 wasted AXI transactions eliminated for 5000 groups. Estimated ~8% reduction in per-iteration time.