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Commit 6c8410d2 authored by Carter Schonwald's avatar Carter Schonwald Committed by thoughtpolice
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add more information about the nature of support of prefetch primops on none...

add more information about the nature of support of prefetch primops on none x86/AMD64 -fasm platforms (and -fvia)
to the 7.8 release notes

Signed-off-by: default avatarAustin Seipp <austin@well-typed.com>

(cherry picked from commit 27fe1285)
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guide the processor's caching decisions. guide the processor's caching decisions.
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Currently, these are only supported with the LLVM Currently, the primops get translated into
backend and x86/amd64 backends. the associated hardware supported prefetch
instructions only with the LLVM backend and
x86/amd64 backends. On all other backends,
the prefetch primops are currently erased
at code generation time.
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