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That's right, this is more a description of how speculative execution works within modern processors (a quite familiar topic lately thanks to Meltdown, Spectre
by bernarpa 8y ago
That's right, this is more a description of how speculative execution works within modern processors (a quite familiar topic lately thanks to Meltdown, Spectre & co.).
- seanmcdirmid 8y agoExcept the author was assuming manual scheduling where today speculative execution is mostly done transparently in hardware (barring failed general purpose VLIW attempts).
- romwell 8y agoThere's no assumption of manual scheduling in that text.