Automatic prefetch of pointers

Details Automatic prefetch of pointers Automatic prefetch of pointers

2005-08-23

2005-08-23

Bragdon, Reginald G. (Department: 2188)

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: memory

Storage accessing and control

Hierarchical memories

C711S170000

Reexamination Certificate

active

06934809

ABSTRACT:
Techniques have been developed whereby likely pointer values are identified at runtime and contents of corresponding storage location can be prefetched into a cache hierarchy to reduce effective memory access latencies. In some realizations, one or more writable stores are defined in a processor architecture to delimit a portion or portions of a memory address space.

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