There is renewed interest in prefetching/prerendering as a way to improve loading performance on the web. However, prefetching cross-origin links reveals potentially ...

I'm trying to download some cram files. I've configured the dbgap project, but when running prefetch I see a lot of output but nothing is downloaded. From the verbose information it does not look like ...

Prefetch files are a feature of Windows that was first introduced in Windows XP. They are files that store information about the applications and files that are frequently accessed by your computer.

Windows tips site IntelliAdmin suggests some ways to speed up Windows startup. Alongside the usual defrag and spyware-cleaning suspects, there's an interesting section on disabling Windows' prefetch ...

The disk I/O calls that the prefetch thread makes are serviced by the prefetch library, which maintains a prefetch queue that stores the addresses of the file blocks to be prefetched. Each prefetch ...

In this subsection we describe the basic operations in the prefetch thread and its interaction with the computation thread and the prefetch library. Figure 2: Computation thread (left) and prefetch ...

Abstract: Existing DRAM controllers employ rigid, non-adaptive scheduling and buffer management policies when servicing prefetch requests. Some controllers treat prefetch requests the same as demand ...