Bidirectional branch prediction and optimization

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1985-06-28

1988-07-05

Shaw, Gareth D.

Boots, shoes, and leggings

G06F 900

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047559667

ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for efficient branching within a central processing unit with overlapped fetch and execute cycles which optimizes the efficient fetching of instructions.

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