Thanks for going into more detail. I was basing my assumption that it wasn't a huge problem on the fact that the only people who complain about it first seem to

Thanks for going into more detail. I was basing my assumption that it wasn't a huge problem on the fact that the only people who complain about it first seem to the folks designing the Mill. They have a ridiculous/insane/cool solution to it. Everyone else seems to first mention their cool branch predictor, or vector processor.