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Implementation of Software Prefetching Hints

xift
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‎06-23-2010 12:21 AM
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Could it be that Software Prefetching generates "Fake-Misses" that trigger the hardware prefetch units?
I'm measuring much more L1 and L2 misses after adding softwareprefetching, while execution time decreases.


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