Quote Originally Posted by gosh View Post
Intel has built in strong prefetchers for data (they have them on the L1 and L2 cache). They also have development tools that help to optimize data for those prefetchers. Using that you can get a higher hitrate for data in the L1 and L2 cache if data is ordered well.
Applications that are used in performance tests or when games are only drawing vertices these prefetching comes in handy, but most real world applications don't get that much advantage from these prefetchers.
thank you for pointing this out.
does this mean the data here is squat diddly representative of real apps?
(how does one COPY data faster than you can READ it? )