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Traditional OoO designs don't stall for loads per se, but will stall for a full ROB that has a chain of dependencies waiting on the results of the load.
by monocasa 1y ago
Traditional OoO designs don't stall for loads per se, but will stall for a full ROB that has a chain of dependencies waiting on the results of the load.
- IshKebab 1y agoGood point, but I guess that's the sort of delay that you can't avoid. If there's literally no work to do until a load is available you have to wait. This design can't avoid that either.