Everything about Link prefetching

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Link prefetchingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Augur: Semantics-Aware Temporal Prefetching for Linked Data StructureInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and CThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Object prefetching using semantic linksCited 22 times
5. Go sideways: FaviconA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Content Security PolicyA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Object prefetching using semantic links

  Alexander P. Pons · 2006 · ACM SIGMIS Database: the DATABASE for Advances in Information Systems · 22 citations

• Low-Power Hybrid Memory Cubes With Link Power Management and Two-Level Prefetching

  Junwhan Ahn, Sungjoo Yoo, Kiyoung Choi · 2016 · IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems · 12 citations

• Compute Express Link Topology-Aware and Expander-Driven Prefetching: Unlocking Solid-State Drive Performance

  Dongsuk Oh, Miryeong Kwon, Jiseon Kim · 2025 · IEEE Micro · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Augur: Semantics-Aware Temporal Prefetching for Linked Data Structure

  Feng Xue, Junliang Wu, Chenji Han · 2025 · ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization · 4 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• SPARC Architecture, Assembly Language Programming, and CRichard P. Paul · 1994
• Writing OS/2 Warp Device Drivers in CSteven J. Mastrianni · 1997

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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