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		avian on Aug 6, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Simdjson: Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second AMD said back in 2016 to have a neural net predictor [1]. I found this slide following references in the Wikipedia article that rowanG077 linked below. [1] https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2016/...

bXVsbGVy on Aug 6, 2020 [–]

> Anticipate future decisions, pre-load instruction, chose best path through the CPU.

This slide is about speculative execution not necessarily about branch prediction.

brianush1 on Aug 6, 2020 | [–]

Pre-loading instructions doesn't mean they're actually getting executed. It sounds like it's talking about branch prediction.

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