We investigate explicit software prefetching, a mechanism software developers can use to prefetch the data in advance so it is ready once the program needs it.

We investigate explicit software prefetching, a mechanism software developers can use to prefetch the data in advance so it is ready once the program needs it.
When processing (searching, inserting etc) your data structure, if you are accessing it in random-access fashion, the performance will suffer due to many data cache misses. Read on how to use the explicit data prefetching to speed up access to your data structure.