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Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Optimization Reference Manual

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<strong>64</strong>-BIT MODE CODING GUIDELINESIn processors based on Intel Core microarchitecture, CVTSI2SS <strong>and</strong> CVTSI2SD areimproved significantly over those in Intel NetBurst microarchitecture, in terms oflatency <strong>and</strong> throughput. The improvements applies equally to <strong>64</strong>-bit <strong>and</strong> <strong>32</strong>-bitversions.9.3.3 Using Software PrefetchIntel recommends that software developers follow the recommendations inChapter 3 <strong>and</strong> Chapter 7 when considering the choice of organizing data accesspatterns to take advantage of the hardware prefetcher (versus using softwareprefetch).Assembly/Compiler Coding Rule 71. (L impact, L generality) If softwareprefetch instructions are necessary, use the prefetch instructions provided by SSE.9-5

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