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Introduction
Introduction to prefetching
IntroductionIn todays computer systems the main bottleneck is not CPU but disk access which is several orders of magnitude slower than CPU and memory. In such circumstances the way to improve application performance is to prefetch data it needs from disk before it even requests it and it is the point of prefetching techniques. The example of prefetching solution is Windows prefetcher. Articles to readThese articles provide much information about prefetching and are worth reading: More articles to read is available on Bibliography page. |
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