diff --git a/run.c b/run.c
index fc24dbd..809d96c 100644
--- a/run.c
+++ b/run.c
@@ -277,14 +277,16 @@ void transformer(int token, int pos, Config* p, RunState* s, TransformerWeights*
 
             // softmax the scores to get attention weights, from 0..pos inclusively
             softmax(att, pos + 1);
-            
+
             // weighted sum of the values, store back into xb
-            for (int i = 0; i < head_size; i++) {
-                float val = 0.0f;
-                for (int t = 0; t <= pos; t++) {
-                    val += att[t] * s->value_cache[loff + t * dim + h * head_size + i]; // note bad locality
+            float* xb = s->xb + h * head_size;
+            memset(xb, 0, head_size * sizeof(float));
+            for (int t = 0; t <= pos; t += 1) {
+                float* v = s->value_cache + loff + t * dim + h * head_size;
+                float a = s->att[h * p->seq_len + t];
+                for (int i = 0; i < head_size; i += 1) {
+                    xb[i] += a * v[i];
                 }
-                s->xb[h * head_size + i] = val;
             }
         }