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This is talking about the case where there is no branch prediction. So every branch incurs the penalty of a bad prediction because it never tries to do the fav
by simcop2387 9y ago
This is talking about the case where there is no branch prediction. So every branch incurs the penalty of a bad prediction because it never tries to do the favorable action, instead it stalls and waits on the result to do the branch.