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Subject: Here ya go

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 09:31:30 06/05/01

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On June 05, 2001 at 11:57:12, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On June 05, 2001 at 11:49:20, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>
>>Second, there are processors which use more than 1 bit for branch prediction.
>>(I think the Sparc-architecture is one of them, but I'm not sure) So
>>recognizing simple patterns like 101010 or thelike would not be a problem for
>>such architectures either.
>
>The branch predictors on x86 also can do this and much more.
>
>They can recognize quite large patterns. I once stumbled upon
>a site that had a great explanation of how it works, but I
>dont remember the link (maybe it was at Dr Dobbs)

http://x86.org/articles/branch/branchprediction.htm

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GCP

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