prefetch instructions in Hotspot

[Mahmood Naderan]

Thanks Vladimir for the feedback. Indeed what you said is what I am trying to analyze.

 
Regards,
Mahmood


On Friday, April 4, 2014 9:37 PM, Vladimir Kozlov <vladimir.kozlov at oracle.com> wrote:
 
>Code looks fine. But you should know that such software prefetches only help when you access memory without >patterns 
>otherwise hardware prefetches in modern cpus will give you much better results. You also need to prefetch far a >head of 
>load instructions.
>
>Regards,
>Vladimir