I can't recall the quote or source, but it went something like: A CPU is a compiler that transforms a serial instruction stream to a wide (acyclic) graph of dat

I can't recall the quote or source, but it went something like: A CPU is a compiler that transforms a serial instruction stream to a wide (acyclic) graph of data dependencies. This refers to concepts like out-of-order execution, superscalar processing, functional unit scheduling, and register renaming.