Cache prefetching

Cache prefetching is a technique used by computer processors to boost execution performance by fetching instructions or data from their original…

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2017

Cache prefetcher greatly eliminates compulsory cache misses, by fetching data from slower memory to faster cache before it is…

2006

Infostations provide an inexpensive and high speed wireless disseminator that features discontinuous coverage by bounding many…

2005

Detecting and predicting a program's execution phases are crucial to dynamic optimizations and dynamically adaptable systems…

2005

Effective data prefetching requires accurate mechanisms to predict embedded patterns in the miss reference behavior. This paper…

2001

Prefetching is a widely adopted technique for improving performance of cache memories. Performances are typically affected by the…

1999

As the gap between processor speed and memory speed grow, so the performance penalty of instruction cache misses gets higher…

1998

Recent research in data cache prefetching is found to be selective in nature: achieving high prediction accuracy over a set of…

1996

Cache memories are commonly used to reduce the performance gap between microprocessor and memory technology. To increase the…

1995

This paper describes a hardware controlled cache prefetching technique which uses the past behavior of misses to prefetch. We…

1995

Prefetching into CPU cache has long been known to be effective in reducing the cache miss ratio, but implementations of…