On 7/17/2011 11:11 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Why would a branch with AMODE switching require more pipeline flushing than a branch without?
If the target AMODE guessed by the hardware is wrong, then it will have to start over again fetching and interpreting the instructions in the correct AMODE.
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