Thread: any technical people make some sense out of this ?
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Old 22-05-2005, 18:29   #7
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Re: any technical people make some sense out of this ?
Branch predictor 'guesses' what instructions are going to go to the CPU next and pre-executes them. Obviously if it gets it wrong it slows things down but it can be a performance enhancer.

More info http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...1155321,00.asp
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