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Re:Future instruction set: AVX-512 by anon_cownerd on Wednesday October 09, 2013 @11:16PM (#6525456)
In fact, hasn't been true since the Pentium Pro. Agner Fog's excellent microarchitecture docs [1] indicate that the PPro (which was a 3-wide machine, and the first out-of-order x86) could find 3 instructions per cycle out of a 16-byte fetch chunk, and likely did so by speculatively starting decode at each byte in parallel.

[1] http://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf

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