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Subject: Re: branch misprediction

Author: Eric Oldre

Date: 12:04:45 07/14/04

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On July 14, 2004 at 13:16:27, Dan Andersson wrote:

> An online treasure trove for basic. and not so basic, CPU knowledge:
>http://arstechnica.com/cpu/index.html
>Look for (super-)pipelining and superscalar processors.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

Thanks Dan, that was an enlightening article for me. I've also now found this
for people who may be interested.

http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Branch%20prediction

However, now that i have some concept of what brach prediction means, how do you
go about minimizing the effects of mis-pridictions? any particular practices to
follow? ways to measure?

Eric

• Re: branch misprediction J. Wesley Cleveland 13:52:40 07/14/04
  • Re: branch misprediction Eric Oldre 20:58:05 07/14/04
    • Re: branch misprediction Robert Hyatt 11:01:15 07/15/04
      • Re: branch misprediction Dan Andersson 19:02:48 07/15/04
• Re: branch misprediction Dan Andersson 12:36:48 07/14/04

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