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The problem with prefetch

The problem with prefetch

Posted May 24, 2011 15:53 UTC (Tue) by shadesfox (guest, #28651)
Parent article: The problem with prefetch

I was under the impression that having a software prefetch instruction in the pipe would cause the hardware prefetcher to be disabled. On an x86 anyways.


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