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Re:Testing AMD's Bergamo: Zen 4c by nuudlman on Saturday June 22, 2024 @10:11PM (#40764128)
The fun thing with branch predictors is that they tell you where the next branch is (among other things like the direction of the branch). Since hardware is built out of finite wires, the prediction will saturate to some maximum distance (something in the next few cache lines).

How this affects decode clusters is left as an exercise to the reader.

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