Apple added a significant new feature to Safari in version 5.0.1. It hasn’t garnered much attention and you may not have heard about it. It’s called DNS prefetching, and its purpose is to speed up the ...

In the fast-paced world of digital advertising, optimizing the delivery of ads is critical to maintaining user engagement and maximizing revenue. When dealing with high-traffic volumes, the risk of ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

Prefetching of data is known to improve performance for many applications. Through a combination of hardware and software, most modern systems include some level of prefetching of the data. By issuing ...

Most desktop computers today, when not in use, power down their hard drives to save energy. While this may be very green, it also incurs minor, though sometimes frustrating, delays. Waiting up to ...

Data prefetching has emerged as a critical approach to mitigate the performance bottlenecks imposed by memory access latencies in modern computer architectures. By predicting the data likely to be ...

New high-performance bridging devices, available from a number of vendors, enable designers to migrate legacy PCI-bus designs to the advanced PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) serial ...

Google explains how it uses the Speculation Rules API to prefetch search results, improving loading speeds on Chrome browsers. Google preloads top search results to speed up page load times using the ...

In the Far Cry tweaking thread, one poster mentioned "prefetching" as a possible tweak, i.e. setting the Task Manager* process priority to "High" or "Very High".<BR><BR>I've known about the process ...