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   George Neuner to joefoxreal@gmail.com   
   Re: Can this type of cache miss be reduc   
   01 Jun 09 12:50:26   
   
   From: gneuner2@comcast.net   
      
   On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 09:14:57 +0000 (UTC), Eric Fisher   
    wrote:   
      
   >But, for a large one-dimensional array, suppose the elements are only   
   >accessed once, can we still reduce the cache miss?   
      
   You can if the elements are accessed in a predictable pattern that   
   allows preloading the element's cache line.  That requires the   
   computation of the index to be regular, which may require changing the   
   element storage order of the array.   
      
   George   
      
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