Ok, but the hardware data prefetch functionality seems basically unchanged: "Characteristics of the hardware prefetcher are: • It requires some regularity in t

Ok, but the hardware data prefetch functionality seems basically unchanged: "Characteristics of the hardware prefetcher are: • It requires some regularity in the data access patterns. — If a data access pattern has constant stride, hardware prefetching is effective if the access stride is less than half of the trigger distance of hardware prefetcher. — If the access stride is not constant, the automatic hardware prefetcher can mask memory latency if the strides of two successive cache misses are less than the trigger threshold distance (small- stride memory traffic). — The automatic hardware prefetcher is most effective if the strides of two successive cache misses remain less than the trigger threshold distance and close to 64 bytes."