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Re:The Mill CPU Architecture: Switches [video] by nhaehnle on Tuesday July 18, 2017 @09:44PM (#14801542)
Something equivalent to deferred loads is a part of AMD's GCN architecture, which has existed for many years now. (It's not exactly a deferred load; rather, there's an explicit wait instruction that can block a thread until a previous load has returned its results. But in the end that's almost the same thing.)

Of course, the characteristics of memory accesses are quite different in a GPU: very high bandwidth at the cost of very high latency.

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