Modern Microprocessors – A 90-Minute Guide

according to the title, I believe this should link here: https://www.lighterra.com/papers/modernmicroprocessors/

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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