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Re:A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (1971) [pdf] by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @08:22AM (#17029242)
Except the author was assuming manual scheduling where today speculative execution is mostly done transparently in hardware (barring failed general purpose VLIW attempts).
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Re:A Short Introduction to the Art of Programming (1971) [pdf] by romwell on Friday May 11, 2018 @02:41PM (#17049805)
There's no assumption of manual scheduling in that text.
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