Article: AMD's Jaguar Microarchitecture
By: TREZA (no.delete@this.ema.il), April 9, 2014 5:34 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
bakaneko (nyan.delete@this.hyan.wan) on April 9, 2014 3:08 pm wrote:
> It is fun how even 'simple' CPUs are now driven
> mostly by branch prediction to get their performance.
Yes.
Simple CPUs are trampled by memory latency. Even without OoO, the prefetcher must be quite inventive to keep the pipeline full.
> It is fun how even 'simple' CPUs are now driven
> mostly by branch prediction to get their performance.
Yes.
Simple CPUs are trampled by memory latency. Even without OoO, the prefetcher must be quite inventive to keep the pipeline full.