2 papers
cs.AR2026
Why Do Prefetchers Fail? Let Agents Answer
Xiangfeng Sun, Ceyu Xu, Ningzhi Ai +3
Hardware prefetchers are crucial to processor performance, yet their design remains labor-intensive and expert-driven. Architects inspect execution and memory-access traces, identi…
cs.AR2026
ICP: Exploiting Instruction Correlation for Prefetching Irregular Memory Accesses
Mengming Li, Chenlu Miao, Buqing Xu +7
Irregular memory accesses pose challenges for effective and efficient data prefetching. While temporal prefetchers have recently shown promise for irregular memory access patterns,…