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chrisfeilbach

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chrisfeilbach··on Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better
Hey, author here. Tomasulo's algorithm is a means of out or order execution, and that was invented and implemented by IBM in the 1960s. It was designed for their floating point operations, specifically. I don't remember if they also implemented speculative execution.
chrisfeilbach··on Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better
I'll add the word 'common' before exceptions. Thanks for feedback.
chrisfeilbach··on Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better
Weird, I'll investigate tomorrow, thank you.
chrisfeilbach··on Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better
What's weird about it? It's the standard Wordpress cookie policy.
chrisfeilbach··on Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better
Author here. I'll work this in. Thank you.
chrisfeilbach··on Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better
Author here. You can only write so much before you start to lose the audience -- do you believe that anything you mentioned in your list is inherently lacking from my post?

Cool trick with the function pointer comparison!