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In the spirit of increasingly large memory caches, don't forget other increasingly large microarchitectural buffers (e.g. reorder/retire buffer), and the hella
by nxobject 3y ago
In the spirit of increasingly large memory caches, don't forget other increasingly large microarchitectural buffers (e.g. reorder/retire buffer), and the hella microarchitectural parallelism that it enables. Apple went all in on this strategy, and it paid off.