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Modestly Better Prefetching

Modestly Better Prefetching

by Richard L. Sites on Aug 8, 2022 | Tags: ,

Cache prefetching is a well-studied topic, but we continue to strive for improvement. Two small ideas are presented here, one for software prefetching and one for hardware. Bigger software prefetches When I worked at Google, a survey of fleet execution time revealed...

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