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Re:What programmers need to know about hardware prefetching? by squeed on Monday August 29, 2011 @02:58PM (#2938337)
The article really only touches on the absolute basics. It would have left me hurting for more specifics. However, I've read Ulrich Drepper's epic paper on modern memory architectures. (http://lwn.net/Articles/259710/)

You should do yourself a favor and read it.

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Re:What programmers need to know about hardware prefetching? by ChuckMcM on Monday August 29, 2011 @03:30PM (#2938486)
+10, best article on memory ever. If a similar treatment showed up on branch prediction we would have an excellent pair.
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