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That's a P4 thing, not a Core thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache#Trace_cache
Edit: ok, Core has a uop cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-operation_cache#Micro-ope...
You don't need a trace cache to do what you suggest, it just predicts the branch and goes from there
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That's a P4 thing, not a Core thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_cache#Trace_cache
Edit: ok, Core has a uop cache http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-operation_cache#Micro-ope...
You don't need a trace cache to do what you suggest, it just predicts the branch and goes from there