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Why Your CPU Is a Fortune Teller

https://articles.akatski.com/posts/branch-prediction-and-speculative-execution.htm

by a_void_sky • 1 year ago

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SillyUsername2• 1 year ago

Superscaler architecture and branch prediction was the next big thing mid 90s. If you've not heard of it then that might be because it's now considered elementary in processor design.

SillyUsername2• 1 year ago

Forgot to mention, here's a nice primer: https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/

a_void_sky• 1 year ago

it "should" be elementary but it isn't, I got the idea to publish something on this because I recently had a conversation with a few new hires

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