A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores therein a program for causing an information processing apparatus to execute a process including analyzing a source program with respect to the information processing apparatus that starts hardware prefetching upon detecting an access to a consecutive area on a main storage device and stops the hardware prefetching upon detecting an end of the access to the consecutive area, specifying an array structure in a loop process as a hardware prefetching target, and generating, from the source program, a machine language program in which the array structure is changed so that a second access occurring next to a first access to the array structure refers to an area being consecutive from the area being referred to by the first access.