prefetch and buffer bloat

Posted May 24, 2011 17:11 UTC (Tue) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455)
In reply to: prefetch and buffer bloat by nye
Parent article: The problem with prefetch

While the marketing part might be cynical, I believe the tradeoff is important to recognize. In the case of bad prefetch, there is no tradeoff that I can see, it simply degrades the performance.