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Function `core.simd.prefetch`

Emit prefetch instruction.


						
				void prefetch(bool writeFetch, ubyte locality)
				(
				

				  const(void)* address
				

				);

Parameters

Name	Description
address	address to be prefetched
writeFetch	true for write fetch, false for read fetch
locality	0..3 (0 meaning least local, 3 meaning most local)

Note

The Intel mappings are:


writeFetch	locality	Instruction
false	0	prefetchnta
false	1	prefetch2
false	2	prefetch1
false	3	prefetch0
true	0	prefetchw
true	1	prefetchw
true	2	prefetchw
true	3	prefetchw

Authors

Walter Bright,

License

Boost License 1.0.