3:14:27hayleySo the OCaml people have been experimenting with prefetching in the major GC, which led to quite impressive results: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/10195
3:23:14hayleyAlso, I left a comment at the bottom pertaining to using a different kind of prefetch (as someone mentioned it elsewhere; in short, we avoid the usual cache as the GC visits each object only once). But I am not sure if I wrote it very clearly.
3:26:16beachIt looks like it would be clear to the OCaml people.