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From cursory glance they have operand read bypass and branch prediction. Operand read bypass speeds things up considerably (factor is 1/N, where N is pipeline l
by thesz 8y ago
From cursory glance they have operand read bypass and branch prediction. Operand read bypass speeds things up considerably (factor is 1/N, where N is pipeline length) and the presence of branch prediction hints at speculative execution.
There are two ALUs.
It seems like highly performant core.
- bogomipz 8y ago>"From cursory glance they have operand read bypass and branch prediction." I'm not familiar with "operand read bypass", is this the same thing as "operand forwarding"? Is this a pipeline optimization? Might you have any link you could share on this?
- thesz 8y agoIt is the same thing. Just different name.