Supported on both SPARC and x86.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-7600/aevkq?a=view

More detail:
http://blogs.sun.com/solarisdev/entry/new_article_prefetching

I suspect that prefetch is sse2.

Regards,

Darryl.


On 09/30/09 05:02 AM, Roland Mainz wrote:
Hi!

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Does |sun_prefetch_read_many()| have any effect on x86 machines ? If
"yes" - are there any CPU/vendor/compiler requirements for this ?

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Bye,
Roland


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