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Code cache organization of Pentium.
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- Despite the potential advantages of a unified cache which is used in the 80486 processor, the Pentium microprocessor uses separate code and data caches.
- The reason is that the superscalar design and branch prediction demand more bandwidth than a unified cache.
- First, efficient branch prediction requires that the destination of …
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