Prefetching
Our goal in implementing prefetching was to enable the client software to fetch documents that it predicted will be accessed by the user in the near future. It is also required that this prefetching does not interfere with the normal operation of the browser from the user's perspective, except in the area of response time, which it is our goal to reduce. This problem was broken up into two separate parts: the creation of the prefetching tables so the client knows what needs to be prefetched and when, and the implementation of the code that actually does the fetching without disrupting the normal operations of the main (parent) client process.


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