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Re:What programmers need to know about hardware prefetching? by Hoff on Monday August 29, 2011 @09:09PM (#2939711)
It's certainly possible to have that control via assembler, where folks are programming in that. So strictly speaking, yes, your "may" can be true.

For C or another language, here's some related reading on that topic, and where you can get into deep trouble with this:

http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/misc_slides/pldi05... http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/misc_slides/reorde... http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-217R1.pdf http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2004/HPL-2004-209.pdf

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