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front-end
- Feb 28, 2026 Front-End Throughput and the Fetch Bandwidth Ceiling Why a wide out-of-order back end can still run narrow, how instruction cache line boundaries, prediction, and decode width bound the supply, and what designs do about it. computer architecture
- Feb 24, 2025 Decode Bandwidth and the Cost of Variable Instruction Length Why fixed-width instructions let a front end decode several per cycle, how variable-length encodings force serial scanning, and where the two approaches land on fetch and decode throughput. computer architecture