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From: jgk@panix.com (Joe keane)
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Subject: Re: Can someone explain step by step how one avoid many conditional in forth as described in Moore Fourth essay?
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In article <4F0DC609.9020503@SPAM.comp-arch.net>,
Andy (Super) Glew <andy@SPAM.comp-arch.net> wrote:
>I believe an IBM chip did eager ifetch - fetching both sides of a
>branch - but did not actually execute, stalled at decoder or
>therabouts.

Doing some 'early' loads seems like a good idea, assuming that you have
some IF units free.

But that is a *lot* different from the other suggestion, copying the
machine state to a different core.