From 661ffcd8435007d45a8924eafb9d8983241f8773 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Noyes <andrew@weaselab.dev>
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:29:42 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Explain purpose for prefetches in getFirstChild

---
 ConflictSet.cpp | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ConflictSet.cpp b/ConflictSet.cpp
index e7c1295..3791e3b 100644
--- a/ConflictSet.cpp
+++ b/ConflictSet.cpp
@@ -1406,10 +1406,12 @@ TaggedNodePointer getChildGeq(Node *self, int child) {
 
 TaggedNodePointer getFirstChild(Node0 *) { return nullptr; }
 TaggedNodePointer getFirstChild(Node3 *self) {
+  // Improves scan performance
   __builtin_prefetch(self->children[1]);
   return self->children[0];
 }
 TaggedNodePointer getFirstChild(Node16 *self) {
+  // Improves scan performance
   __builtin_prefetch(self->children[1]);
   return self->children[0];
 }