Do you mean storing the next index/offset and having the pointer value calculated as late as possible by adding the starting address (and maybe multiplying the

Do you mean storing the next index/offset and having the pointer value calculated as late as possible by adding the starting address (and maybe multiplying the index by sizeof)? That would probably defeat/mislead Intel's prefetcher, as described at https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/technical/software-security-guidance/technical-documentation/data-dependent-prefetcher.html https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/developer/articles/t...