Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

With the clock speed arms race now behind us, the world has turned to increases in the number of processor cores to boost performance. As more applications are becoming multi-threaded, CPU core ...

As anybody who has read What every programmer should know about memory knows, performance on contemporary systems is often dominated by cache behavior. A single cache miss can cause a processor stall ...