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Re:ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing by monocasa on Monday December 14, 2020 @03:02PM (#25422462)
I believe they're just commenting on how Tomusulo style OoO cores are internally similar to dataflow architectures in general, despite presenting a von Neumann veneer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_architecture

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Re:ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing by CalChris on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:17PM (#25426248)
Right. So instead of speculation killed dataflow it's speculation used dataflow but in a useful way.
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