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Are correct branch predictions free?

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What are shadow registers in MIPS and how are they used?

Is memory outside each core always conceptually flat/uniform/synchronous in a multiprocessor system?

Can the simple decoders in recent Intel microarchitectures handle all 1-µop instructions?

Why does 20 address space with on a 16 bit machine give access to 1 Megabyte and not 2 Megabytes?

What does the processor do while waiting for a main memory fetch

Updating page table when an entry is evicted from TLB

Was there a P4 model with double-pumped 64-bit operations?

Can a load or store be reordered before a conditional?

Do store instructions block subsequent instructions on a cache miss?

Does it cost significant resources for a modern CPU to keep flags updated?

Can two fuseable pairs be decoded in the same clock cycle?

Which architecture to call Non-uniform memory access (NUMA)?

Why does the 80x87 instruction set use a "stack-based" design?

When accessing memory, will the page table accessed/dirty bit be set under a cache hit situation?

Conflict Miss v/s Compulsory Miss

CPU cache: does the distance between two address needs to be smaller than 8 bytes to have cache advantage?

Exactly how "fast" are modern CPUs?

Do all 64 bit intel architectures support SSSE3/SSE4.1/SSE4.2 instructions?

Critical sections with multicore processors