It's a link to a document on architectures well over a decade old - the most recent mentioned is the original Core architecture (from 2008). Honestly, based on your first comment I thought you were implying something about content dependent prefetch or other techniques that I am familiar in the academic literature but unaware of ever being used in mainstream hardware.

> Organize the data so consecutive accesses can usually be found in the same 4-KByte page. > • Access the data in constant strides forward or backward IP Prefetcher. 3-72

> Method 2: >• Organize the data in consecutive lines. > • Access the data in increasing addresses, in sequential cache lines.

Nothing new here that contradicts the GPs skepticism. Certainly not enough evidence for you to be a dick.