Preprint
Sep 2026
Confidence-Gated Admission for Hardware Prefetching: When the Gate Matters More Than the Predictor
It is proved gate-closed execution reproduces the no-prefetch baseline exactly and proves the gate matters more than the predictor, and better proxies do not imply better endpoints.
Youssef Majdane, Simone Jarno Casartelli, Enrico Lopedoto
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