One Mechanism Intel Uses to Make Its Caches More Effective

question 6

Multiple Choice

One mechanism Intel uses to make its caches more effective is __________ , in which the hardware examines memory access patterns and attempts to fill the caches speculatively with data that is likely to be requested soon.

• A) mapping
• B) handling
• C) interconnecting
• D) prefetching

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