Hayden Hudgins and Christopher Siu ({hrhudgin, cesiu}@calpoly.edu), CSC 515, Fall 2018
This proof-of-concept plugin for the OpenJDK 11 compiler fakes prefetching data in sequential Java lists by adding calls to LinkedList.peek() after calls to LinkedList.poll() and by adding calls to ArrayList.get(i + 1) after calls to ArrayList.get(i) (any expression is acceptable; the object expression and the index expression need not be simple identifiers).
We begrudgingly admit that Oracle was right: this provides no speedup in Java.