Prefetching, in the context of CPU caches, is an optimization technique whose objective is to bring instructions/data into the CPU caches before they are actually required. An effective prefetch hides ...

Abstract: In this paper, we reveal the existence of a new class of prefetcher, the XPT prefetcher, in modern Intel processors which has never been officially detailed. It speculatively issues a load, ...

This is our implementation, plotting code and report for the prefetcher lab of the course computer architecture (TDT4260) at NTNU. The goal is to research on, understand and implement a self-chosen ...