This is a problem we know how to solve though. Techniques like predecoding and to a greater extent uop caches mean that you only have to do the harder parts of

This is a problem we know how to solve though. Techniques like predecoding and to a greater extent uop caches mean that you only have to do the harder parts of decode on (relatively) rare misses. On hits, you can avoid the entire problem since you already have this information stored or abstracted away.