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Old 22-05-2005, 19:24   #8
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Re: any technical people make some sense out of this ?
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Originally Posted by Ignition
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.

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