Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com> writes: > I wonder if such effect of instructions on the pipeline can be modeled > in the DFA and thus whether the scheduler could issue (always ready) > NOPs?
I might be wrong but the DFA model should be reasoning in terms of executed instructions given an execution path, on the contrary this is taking in account the 'footprint' of the branches of a program in memory. This is what some u-arch is sentive to. Andrea