Apple added a significant new feature to Safari in version 5.0.1. It hasn’t garnered much attention and you may not have heard about it. It’s called DNS prefetching, and its purpose is to speed up the ...

Apple has received most of the attention for its false opens -- the result of pre-fetching and the privacy regime it instituted last September. But Gmail is also prefetching, leading to marginally ...

Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle through to system RAM and ...

New high-performance bridging devices, available from a number of vendors, enable designers to migrate legacy PCI-bus designs to the advanced PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) serial ...

How quickly your mobile site takes to load will soon impact whether people will see your Facebook ads, the social network announced. As Facebook put it, they will consider “website performance and a ...

Google preloads top search results to speed up page load times using the Speculation Rules API. Prefetching improves performance on mobile and desktop. Google is exploring prerendering entire search ...

A new technical paper titled “Memory Prefetching Evaluation of Scientific Applications on A Modern HPC Arm-based Processor” was published by researchers at Jülich Supercomputing Centre and KTH Royal ...