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RE: 64-bit Architecture

To: "'Nathan Binkert'" <binkertn@umich.edu>
Subject: RE: 64-bit Architecture
From: "Al" <arl@q7.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 11:57:15 -0400
Cc: "'Christian Weisgerber'" <naddy@mips.inka.de>, <misc@openbsd.org>
Importance: Normal

>> It has been a while since some of the folks at HP and Intel explained
this
>> to me but what I understand makes the design fast is that the compiler
>> supplies the CPU with information on the instruction stream so that
better
>> choices can be made when executing instructions out of order and making
>> branch predictions.

>Itanium is NOT an Out of Order processor.

Sorry, I was confusing Out of Order and parallel execution.

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- RE: 64-bit Architecture
  - From: Nathan Binkert <binkertn@umich.edu>

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