Fetch, prefetch and hard ware prefetch

[Timothy C Prince]

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From: ranjith kumar <ranjit_kumar_b4u@yahoo.co.uk>
To: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:27:17 +0100 (BST)
Subject: Fetch, prefetch and hard ware prefetch

Hi all,

I have the following queries

1)What does the meaning of "fetch".

2)What does the meaning of "prefetch".

3)What does the meaning of "hardware-prefetch".

4) what is the difference among them?

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There's a lot more information readily found by your search engine than we could repeat here, particularly since you appear to be off topic.

Tim Prince