Great article. Wish list of topics to add: - branch predictors that can detect patterns (edit: I guess it's already covered in the paragraph about raising pre

Great article. Wish list of topics to add: - branch predictors that can detect patterns (edit: I guess it's already covered in the paragraph about raising prediction accuracy) - LRU-approximations in L1 caches - Data prefetching (sequential, stride) - Return address stack Concerning μops, I think the 68060 did that, too.