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Re:XOR Linked List by forgotusername on Thursday May 03, 2012 @07:06PM (#3926242)
As best I understand it, while instruction prefetch is a complex affair, data prefetch is limited to detecting incrementing sequential address access, unless directed through a PREFETCH op. I can't a find a good reference, but I believe at best the CPU can only optimize by detecting stride.

In no circumstance will the CPU magically understand the semantics of some data structure.

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