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Presumably any modern processor would use some form of pipelining, which I think would take instructions back up into the billions. (The pentium 4, if I recall
by jacoblyles 17y ago
Presumably any modern processor would use some form of pipelining, which I think would take instructions back up into the billions. (The pentium 4, if I recall correctly, had a 20+ stage pipeline)
- gridspy 17y agoLong pipelines cause issues when branches get mis-predicted. The half processed instructions have to be thrown away. What you want is a CPU with a short pipeline, a fast clock rate and if possible instruction reordering and multiple dispatch. Large caches and good branch prediction help a lot too.
- bruceboughton 17y agoFrom CSS to processor design in just 5 comments! Only on HN ;)