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To: milan0 who wrote (28545)7/28/1998 5:50:00 PM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 33344
 
Mike,

An intelligent CPU can prefetch on it's own. It shouldn't be a software thing at all. An intelligent CPU might dedicate an extra step on the front end of the CPU (i.e. instruction decoder) to get the data from memory and into the cache before the instruction starts executing.

Steve