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ISCA
1994
IEEE
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Evaluating Stream Buffers as a Secondary Cache Replacement
Today's commodity microprocessors require a low latency memory system to achieve high sustained performance. The conventional high-performance memory system provides fast dat...
Subbarao Palacharla, Richard E. Kessler
MICRO
2000
IEEE
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Predictor-directed stream buffers
An effective method for reducing the effect of load latency in modern processors is data prefetching. One form of data prefetching, stream buffers, has been shown to be particular...
Timothy Sherwood, Suleyman Sair, Brad Calder