prefetch

Examples

• All

• Improvements include increased I/O transfer rates, support for more I/O controllers, I/O prefetch, and an I/O cache.

  Academic text (1994)

• These detectors recognize stride 1 data access patterns and prefetch data that are predicted to be needed before they are actually called, thereby reducing the memory-latency overhead.

  Academic text (2000)

• During the prefetch, computing is being done on the data just brought into cache.

  Academic text (1994)

• People build these things in hardware, prefetch engines, branch predictors and so on.

• In that case, the prefetch load does not result in a cache miss and becomes an ordinary load.

  Academic text (1994)

• For prefetch operations, the SCU fetches the 64 bytes requested as well as the next sequential 64 bytes.

  Academic text (1994)

• It examines the byte address and the access key, initiates the prefetch of the line, merges the data, and stores the changed line back to the memory.

  Academic text (1997)

• In addition, enhancements to the protocol for the SIO bus include prefetch data commands from the I/O unit so that the DMA data from memory are available to the I/O unit with minimum delay.

  Academic text (1994)

• The prefetch of essential files ensures that the software launches quickly when needed.

• The application benefits greatly from a prefetch that reduces the waiting time for users.

Synonyms

P

preload

vsprefetch

• Specialized

5.3

Data loaded in advance so it is ready to use

is loaded early specifically to make programs or sites start or run faster

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Etymology