Tag
reorder-buffer
- May 13, 2026 Misprediction Recovery: Checkpoints, Squash, and the Cost of Being Wrong How an out-of-order core unwinds speculative state when a branch resolves wrong, why checkpoints of the rename map beat walking a reorder buffer, and what limits recovery speed. computer architecture
- May 13, 2026 The Reorder Buffer and In-Order Retirement How entries move through the reorder buffer from allocation to commit, why retirement order is what makes speculative and out-of-order execution safe, and what limits the buffer size. computer architecture