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misprediction-cost
- Apr 25, 2026 Control Hazards: What a Branch Costs Before It Resolves The cycles a taken branch throws away in a five-stage pipeline, why the penalty equals the number of fetches in flight, and how prediction turns a fixed loss into a probabilistic one. computer architecture
- Aug 22, 2023 Deep Pipelines and Why More Stages Stop Paying The arithmetic of latch overhead, the growing penalty for branches and exceptions, and the point at which another stage costs more throughput than it returns. computer architecture