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Well,

The latency results for simple sequental access show that prefetching is disabled in this ES....

In Sandy Bridge preftching reduces the L3 latency by a factor 2 or so. Latency reduction
is responsible for most of Sandy Bridge's IPC increase over Nehalem.

Regards, Hans