Sequential Program Prefetching in Memory Hierarchies

  • Authors:
  • A. J. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 1978

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Abstract

Memory transfers due to a cache miss are costly. Prefetching all memory references in very fast computers can increase the effective CPU speed by 10 to 25 percent.