Prefetching
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Prefetching generally means loading something ahead of time and could refer to any one of the following topics:
- Instruction prefetch, in computer architecture, a microprocessor speedup technique
- Prefetch input queue (PIQ), in computer architecture, pre-loading machine code from memory
- Link prefetching, a web mechanism for prefetching links
- The Prefetcher technology in modern releases of Microsoft Windows
- PREFETCH an X86 instruction in computing
- Prefetch buffer, a feature of DDR SDRAM memory