+/// TranspositionTable::prefetch looks up the current position in the
+/// transposition table and load it in L1/L2 cache. This is a non
+/// blocking function and do not stalls the CPU waiting for data
+/// to be loaded from RAM, that can be very slow. When we will
+/// subsequently call retrieve() the TT data will be already
+/// quickly accessible in L1/l2 CPU cache.
+
+void TranspositionTable::prefetch(const Key posKey) const {
+
+ _mm_prefetch((char*)first_entry(posKey), _MM_HINT_T0);
+}