Sujet : Re: Another security vulnerability
De : monnier (at) *nospam* iro.umontreal.ca (Stefan Monnier)
Groupes : comp.archDate : 03. Apr 2024, 19:10:41
Autres entêtes
Organisation : A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID : <jwvedbmco81.fsf-monnier+comp.arch@gnu.org>
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Since each chased pointer starts back at LSQ, the cost is no different
than an explicit Prefetch instruction, except without (a),(b) and (c)
having been applied first.
I thought the important difference is that the decision to prefetch or
not can be done dynamically based on past history.
Stefan