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Early branch

Open losfair opened this issue 5 years ago • 0 comments

Currently branches aren't applied until they are committed. This gives a misprediction penalty of at least 6 cycles.

By adding an "early branch" signal we can allow the branch units to request a branch at the frontend directly, which would hopefully reduce misprediction penalty to 4 cycles.

losfair avatar Oct 01 '20 04:10 losfair