Your CPU is effectively a virtual machine with stuff like branch prediction, speculative execution w/rollback, pipelining, implicit parallelism, etc. etc. Of c

Your CPU is effectively a virtual machine with stuff like branch prediction, speculative execution w/rollback, pipelining, implicit parallelism, etc. etc. Of course, it isn't able to do quite as much as a VM running in software (because fixed buffers for everything, etc.), but even so...