Thanks for another illuminating and highly accessible blog post! (And thank you times 10 for just letting the browser use its own font.)
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Not forcing line length and font is probably the most loved and most hated feature on my blog :-).
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Awesome! Fun fact: The original Pentium actually had a slightly broken branch predictor that was fixed by the time MMX was introduced.
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I didn't know that MMX also introduced the global predictor?
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@danluu for a great, educating read! Spotted a small typo: "worklaods"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Great post! One small thing: doesn't the diagram in "two-bit" section actually describe "two-level adaptive, global"?
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Fun factoid: The original branch prediction involved a literal branch.
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Two possible typos: first, above "Predict taken", should "branch_pct * 1 + non_branch_pct * 20" be "non_branch_pct * 1 + branch_pct * 20"?
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