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The "in a sense" was doing a lot of heavy lifting. They still hit the backend but the idea is that a nop also hits the backend but does no work. Programmers, I
by mhh__ 4y ago
The "in a sense" was doing a lot of heavy lifting. They still hit the backend but the idea is that a nop also hits the backend but does no work.
Programmers, I think, sometimes still think of a very backend heavy idea of branch prediction (e.g. old static predictors)
- titzer 4y agoBy "hitting the backend" do you mean generating μ-ops? Because nops don't generate μ-ops yet branches definitely do.