does intel dual core processor support hardware for prefetching

[jsairabanu]

does Intel Dual core processor supports hardware prefetching.If so can you give me some material which will be helpful to know how hardware prefetching is helpful in overcoming memory latency and how to make use of it.

 

[uh_no]

it depends on the particular microarchitecture.......nearly every modern processor is has hardware which tries to guess which memory locations will be used and load them into cache because cache misses are slow

memory prefetching is simply getting a piece of data from main memory into cache before an instruction comes along which asks for it

this seems like a homework problem and you should probably do your homework rather than ask other people to do it for you

 

[photonboy]

I might offer more help if you were a little more clear about why you were doing this.