On 20.01.2012 11:18, Skybuck Flying wrote:
Finally if you do believe prefetching is a good alternative to a pointer cache or simply want to try out the effect of prefetching class pointers then I challenge you to implement it in a experimental branch of the free pascal compiler, so the prefetch idea can be tried out and tested !
Why don't you try yourself whether it has a positive effect? "prefetch" is already part of FPC's RTL since quite some time: http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/rtl/system/prefetch.html
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