Piling on cores is one way to boost performance, but it's not necessarily the most efficient way -- researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a new prefetching technique for ...

Prefetching of data is known to improve performance for many applications. Through a combination of hardware and software, most modern systems include some level of prefetching of the data. By issuing ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

Apple added a significant new feature to Safari in version 5.0.1. It hasn’t garnered much attention and you may not have heard about it. It’s called DNS prefetching, and its purpose is to speed up the ...

New high-performance bridging devices, available from a number of vendors, enable designers to migrate legacy PCI-bus designs to the advanced PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) serial ...

In the fast-paced world of digital advertising, optimizing the delivery of ads is critical to maintaining user engagement and maximizing revenue. When dealing with high-traffic volumes, the risk of ...

How quickly your mobile site takes to load will soon impact whether people will see your Facebook ads, the social network announced. As Facebook put it, they will consider “website performance and a ...

Google preloads top search results to speed up page load times using the Speculation Rules API. Prefetching improves performance on mobile and desktop. Google is exploring prerendering entire search ...

Apple has received most of the attention for its false opens -- the result of pre-fetching and the privacy regime it instituted last September. But Gmail is also prefetching, leading to marginally ...

In the Far Cry tweaking thread, one poster mentioned "prefetching" as a possible tweak, i.e. setting the Task Manager* process priority to "High" or "Very High".<BR><BR>I've known about the process ...