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A few years ago I was teaching a course to MPhil students and mentioned some details of the NetBurst microarchitecture as an example of when branch prediction became really important. ‘You all remember the Pentium 4?’ Blank stares. Oh, right, they were about five when it went away.
A few years ago I was teaching a course to MPhil students and mentioned some details of the NetBurst microarchitecture as an example of when branch prediction became really important. ‘You all remember the Pentium 4?’ Blank stares. Oh, right, they were about five when it went away.