Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide

(lighterra.com)

102 points | by Flex247A 4 days ago

3 comments

  • bschne 3 hours ago
    according to the title, I believe this should link here: https://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/
  • tralarpa 1 hour ago
    Great article.

    Wish list of topics to add:

    - branch predictors that can detect patterns (edit: I guess it's already covered in the paragraph about raising prediction accuracy)

    - LRU-approximations in L1 caches

    - Data prefetching (sequential, stride)

    - Return address stack

    Concerning μops, I think the 68060 did that, too.

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      … and full of page-turning information! That was a really interesting read :)
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