Memory Management with Stephen Dolan
Signals and Threads
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Using Software Prefetching in a Garbage Collector?
Software prefetching is a relatively simple way to speed up programmes. Pre-fetching instructions can be used in data structures such as link lists. But it's difficult to get good performance out of pre fetching, and the timing needs to be just right. You'd really like someone who understood memisub systems could put the prefetching stuff into the commonly used libraries - but unfortunately that doesn't happen very often.
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