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CPU branch predictors
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What experts have said about CPU branch predictors
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Branch predictors forecast branches early so CPUs can continue executing before branch resolution.
“the purpose of the branch predictor is genuinely to predict based on before you even get to this destruction, to be like five cycles earlier to predict there was going to be a branch that's going to happen”
Open the episode · Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom upListen at 1:11:49
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