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Re:XOR Linked List by ajross on Thursday May 03, 2012 @06:52PM (#3926200)
Yes, but imagine the bus traffic if you tried that: every commited instruction would require a TLB read to see if it "looked like" an address. The poor TLB is overcommited as it is (Intel CPUs can do three memory operations in a clock). All prefetch implementation I'm aware of simply do sequential access (positive or negative) prediction, sometimes with stride detection, and that's it.

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