Re:The Performance Cost of Integer Overflow Checking
by solarexplorer on Thursday December 18, 2014 @05:33AM
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Good point. So then instead of updating Q out-of-order you could update at commit. You just need to block any instruction that reads Q until the OoO core is empty. This is _much_ cheaper to implement than adding a dependency on all instructions.
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