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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2005
Filed:
Apr. 12, 2002
Alejandro Ramirez, St. Feliu de Llobregat, ES;
Edward Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
John Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Alejandro Ramirez, St. Feliu de Llobregat, ES;
Edward Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
John Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system that compares a current fetch request having a first start address and length associated with the current fetch request to a second start address of the next fetch request, determines whether the content already loaded in a buffer will be used to at least partially fulfill the next fetch request based upon the comparison, and inhibits access to an instruction cache based upon the comparison.