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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers have shown that Linux systems can be engineered to rely heavily on remote memory pulled over a network, but the ...

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 ...

Browser VPN extensions for Google Chrome may be leaking DNS queries to external observers thanks to a Chrome feature called DNS prefetching. DNS prefetching works when Chrome makes DNS requests before ...

Most desktop computers today, when not in use, power down their hard drives to save energy. While this may be very green, it also incurs minor, though sometimes frustrating, delays. Waiting up to ...

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 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 ...