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dongho

What is the role of the memory pre-fetcher?

Azerty

It sounds like a memory pre-fetcher would be used to prefetch data into cache (see Link to Lecture 2, slide 43)

amaliujia

@dongho I think memory pre-fetcher is trying to use locality property, so it mainly try to prefetch data from disk to memory.