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prefetch keyword misnomer?

King_Crimson
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‎04-10-2015 05:17 PM
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Dear forum,

Looking at the assembly code, the prefetch intrinsics function with _MM_HINT_T2 hint is compiled to vprefetch2, which, according to MIC instruction set manual, is a non-temporal L2 prefetch. This seems to contradict the temporal nature implied in "T". Or did I miss anything?

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