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- noun computing A system or process that
prefetches data.
Etymologies
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Examples
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You can speed this up a bit by using XP's built in prefetcher.
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The N450 also has a new register access manager that controls the flow of data into and out of the processor and a more efficient data prefetcher so the processor doesn't have to wait for needed data to be delivered.
Latest from Computerworld Brian Nadel 2010
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The N450 also has a new register access manager that controls the flow of data into and out of the processor and a more efficient data prefetcher so the processor doesn't have to wait for needed data to be delivered.
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The N450 also has a new register access manager that controls the flow of data into and out of the processor and a more efficient data prefetcher so the processor doesn't have to wait for needed data to be delivered.
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The prefetcher works by remembering what data is requested by a process during launch and tries to improve application launch times by serving the data in a more optimised fashion in the future.
Pallab dot Net 2010
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One myth that has been floating around for quite some time is related to the Windows prefetcher.
Pallab dot Net 2010
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The N450 also has a new register access manager that controls the flow of data into and out of the processor and a more efficient data prefetcher so the processor doesn't have to wait for needed data to be delivered.
Latest from Computerworld Brian Nadel 2010
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The Windows prefetcher was designed to work on its own, without user intervention.
Pallab dot Net 2010
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On the database server, we enabled the available CPU cache performance options: hardware prefetcher, and adjacent cache line prefetch [ref07].
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A hardware cache prefetcher is a system by which a CPU's memory controller detects a sequential pattern of memory access, and when such a pattern is detected, predicts the next piece of memory that will be requested and places it in the cache.
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