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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 05, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2004
Michael Kerby Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dz-ching Ju, Saratoga, CA (US);
Michael Kerby Chen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dz-ching Ju, Saratoga, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to software caching with bounded-error delayed updates. Embodiments of the present invention describe a delayed-update software-controlled cache, which may be used to reduce memory access latencies and improve throughput for domain specific applications that are tolerant of errors caused by delayed updates of cached values. In at least one embodiment of the present invention, software caching may be implemented by using a compiler to automatically generate caching code in application programs that must access and/or update memory. Cache is accessed for a period of time, even if global data has been updated, to delay costly memory accesses. Other embodiments are described and claimed.