Re:A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (1971) [pdf]
by bernarpa on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @06:39AM
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That's right, this is more a description of how speculative execution works within modern processors (a quite familiar topic lately thanks to Meltdown, Spectre & co.).
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Re:A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (1971) [pdf]
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:22AM
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Except the author was assuming manual scheduling where today speculative execution is mostly done transparently in hardware (barring failed general purpose VLIW attempts).