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Prefetching considered harmful

Prefetching considered harmful

Posted Sep 10, 2010 16:20 UTC (Fri) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: Prefetching considered harmful by nwatkins
Parent article: Prefetching considered harmful

It's more likely that a modern CPU will speculate ahead to the next iteration of the loop, which will start to bring in the next structure in the list.


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