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Branch misprediction — occurs when a central processing unit (CPU) mispredicts the next instruction to process in branch prediction, which is aimed at speeding up execution. During the execution of certain programs there are places where the program execution flow can… … Wikipedia
Register renaming — In computer engineering, register renaming refers to a technique usedto avoid unnecessary serialization of program operations imposed by the reuseof registers by those operations.Problem definitionPrograms are composed of instructions which… … Wikipedia
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Speculative execution — In computer science, speculative execution is the execution of code, the result of which may not be needed. In the context of functional programming, the term speculative evaluation is used instead.TypesGenerally, statements and definitions in a… … Wikipedia
Branch predictor — In computer architecture, a branch predictor is the part of a processor that determines whether a conditional branch in the instruction flow of a program is likely to be taken or not. This is called branch prediction. Branch predictors are… … Wikipedia
List of cognitive biases — A cognitive bias is a pattern of poor judgment, often triggered by a particular situation. Identifying poor judgment, or more precisely, a deviation in judgment, requires a standard for comparison, i.e. good judgment . In scientific… … Wikipedia
Clustering illusion — The clustering illusion refers to the tendency erroneously to perceive small samples from random distributions to have significant streaks or clusters , caused by a human tendency to underpredict the amount of variability likely to appear in a… … Wikipedia
