Abstract: Modern x86 processors have many prefetch instructions that can be used by programmers to boost performance. However, these instructions may also cause security problems. In particular, we ...

prefetch2es uses the Python library pyscca, providing high-performance parsing of Windows Prefetch files. It also allows recursive import from the specified directory. $ tree . pffiles/ ├── file1.pf ...

Abstract: To alleviate the performance and energy overheads of contemporary applications with large data footprints, we propose the Two Level Perceptron (TLP) predictor, a neural mechanism that ...

Hi there, I would like to understand why gem5 does not include the simplest and most commonly used instruction prefetching strategy, namely a next-line prefetcher. Its behavior is to prefetch the next ...