Messages in this thread |  | | From | Mark Hemment <> | Subject | jump/alignment considerations | Date | Mon, 27 Jan 1997 10:07:59 +0000 (GMT) |
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Hi,
> > on the other hand, doing an > > jg over > jmp __down_failed > over:
Be careful. The Pentium (and, I guess Pro), branch prediction is not clean as it should be. I don't have the references at hand, but I remember reading about the above jump construct. Something about consecutive jumps sharing the same BTB entry, and causing mis-applying BTB entries.
Regards,
markhe
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