๐Ÿค“ Ken Shirriff's blog is back with another thrilling installment of "Things No One Asked For," this time diving into the prefetch queue of a processor from the Reagan era. ๐ŸŽ‰ Because, clearly, what the world was missing is a deep dive into 16-byte queues from 1985 that even your toaster has outpaced. ๐Ÿš€
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Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry

In 1985, Intel introduced the groundbreaking 386 processor, the first 32-bit processor in the x86 architecture. To improve performance, the ...