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The point of the page is that the Mill CPU (of which I know almost nothing, I don't think I had heard of it before) does not do branch prediction, instead it fo
by unwind 13y ago
The point of the page is that the Mill CPU (of which I know almost nothing, I don't think I had heard of it before) does not do branch prediction, instead it focuses on the memory traffic and does transfer prediction:
[...] it predicts transfers rather than branches [..]
So, the title of the post is annoyingly misleading and I would really appreciate it if someone could edit.
- Mindless2112 13y agoDid you watch the video of the talk? The wording in the summary is a bit misleading. The Mill does exit prediction on extended basic blocks -- it predicts which branch will be taken rather than if a particular branch will be taken, and it can chain these predictions.