Performance comparison of data prefetching for pointer-chasing applications

2009 1st International Conference on Information Science and Engineering, ICISE 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 307-310

  Huang, Yan ^a,b   Gu, Zhimin ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHENGZHOU UNIVERSITY OF LIGHT INDUSTRY   (China)

Author keywords

CMP; Performance comparison; Prefetch instruction; Prefetching thread

Indexed keywords

CHIP MULTIPROCESSORS; COMPARE AND ANALYZE; DATA-PREFETCHING; INSTRUCTION PREFETCHING; MEMORY ACCESS PATTERNS; MEMORY LATENCIES; NEW OPPORTUNITIES; OLDEN BENCHMARKS; PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PERFORMANCE GAIN; PREFETCHES; PREFETCHING;

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

EID: 77952749689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICISE.2009.829     Document Type: Conference Paper

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