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ISPAN
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Data prefetching has been considered an effective way to mask data access latency caused by cache misses and to bridge the performance gap between processor and memory. With hardw...
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Modern processors attempt to overcome increasing memory latencies by anticipating future references and prefetching those blocks from memory. The behavior and possible negative si...
ISPASS
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2010
IEEE
After many years of prefetching research, most commercially available systems support only two types of prefetching: software-directed prefetching and hardware-based prefetchers u...
APCSAC
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Abstract. Given the increasing gap between processors and memory, prefetching data into cache becomes an important strategy for preventing the processor from being starved of data....
ICCD
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2002
IEEE
An important technique for alleviating the memory bottleneck is data prefetching. Data prefetching solutions ranging from pure software approach by inserting prefetch instructions...