performance.Instructionprefetchinghasbeenproposedas amechanismtohelpreduceinstructioncachemisses,which inturncanhelpincreaseinstructionsupplytotheprocessor. Inthispaperweexamineanewinstructionprefetchar- chitecturecalledFetchDirectedPrefetching,andcompare ittotheperformanceofnext-lineprefetchingandstreaming buffers.This...