Branch-Prediction

• CPU Microarchitecture: Pipelines, Out-of-Order Execution, and Modern Performance · 2025-12-04

  An in-depth exploration of CPU microarchitecture: instruction pipelines, hazards, branch prediction, out-of-order execution, register renaming, superscalar and SIMD units, and how software maps to hardware for performance.

• Branch Prediction and Speculative Execution: How Modern CPUs Gamble on the Future · 2021-08-15

  Explore how modern processors predict branch outcomes and execute instructions speculatively, the algorithms behind branch predictors, the performance implications for your code, and the security vulnerabilities like Spectre that emerged from these optimizations.