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Hsu et al., 1992 - Google Patents

Prefetching in supercomputer instruction caches

Hsu et al., 1992

Document ID
13401498296420299064
Author
Hsu W
Smith J
Publication year
Publication venue
Supercomputing'92

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Prefetching methods for instruction caches in supercomputers are studied via trace-driven simulation. The two primary methods studied are fall-through prefetch for sequential line accesses and target prefetch for nonsequential ones. As measured by miss rate, both …
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