In <[email protected]>, on 07/18/2011
at 03:26 PM, Edward Jaffe <[email protected]> said:
>Absolutely! There is a multi-stage pipeline that allows the processor
>to get ahead of the current instruction's execution to fetch and
>decode instructions, resolve addresses, fetch operands, etc. in
>advance of the actual instruction execution.
That doesn't address my question. The questions are when the processor
starts filling in a new segment of the pipeline for a branch and
whether it takes the opcode into account. Keep in mind that there is
not a separate general register for the target address mode.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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