Branch predictor: Revision history

19 February 2024

• curprev 23:2623:26, 19 February 2024‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 41,230 bytes +1‎ →‎History: MOS:N'T. undo
• curprev 21:5121:51, 19 February 2024‎ Pcordes talk contribs‎ 41,229 bytes +317‎ →‎History: Clearer description of Spectre. Cache timing is the best side-channel (not the only possible one, but intentionally keep it simple here). But the real crux of Spectre is priming the branch predictors to cause a specific mispredict in other code which has access to secret data. undo

23 October 2023

• curprev 12:0112:01, 23 October 2023‎ InternetArchiveBot talk contribs‎ 40,912 bytes +162‎ Rescuing 1 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.5 undo

18 August 2023

• curprev 14:3514:35, 18 August 2023‎ 195.176.112.132 talk‎ 40,750 bytes −16‎ removed x86. It is not a computer architecture, but an instruction set architecture. undo

13 August 2023

• curprev 21:5821:58, 13 August 2023‎ Comp.arch talk contribs‎ m 40,766 bytes 0‎ No edit summary undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 21:5821:58, 13 August 2023‎ Comp.arch talk contribs‎ 40,766 bytes +17‎ See hatnote there... undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

12 August 2023

• curprev 17:1417:14, 12 August 2023‎ OAbot talk contribs‎ m 40,749 bytes +17‎ Open access bot: doi added to citation with #oabot. undo

24 July 2023

• curprev 16:4716:47, 24 July 2023‎ Dagav20 talk contribs‎ m 40,732 bytes +10‎ Added missing "Figure 1" text to indicate that this is the first figure. undo Tag: Visual edit

6 July 2023

• curprev 01:4401:44, 6 July 2023‎ Citation bot talk contribs‎ 40,722 bytes +4‎ Alter: pages. Formatted dashes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Guy Harris | #UCB_webform undo
• curprev 01:4201:42, 6 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,718 bytes +47‎ →‎Neural branch prediction: Add DOI and page range. undo
• curprev 01:3901:39, 6 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,671 bytes +32‎ →‎Neural branch prediction: Add DOI. undo
• curprev 01:3601:36, 6 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,639 bytes +83‎ →‎Neural branch prediction: URL and DOI, no hyphen in "7th". undo
• curprev 01:2801:28, 6 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,556 bytes +51‎ →‎Two-level adaptive predictor: Add a DOI and an author link. undo
• curprev 01:2201:22, 6 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,505 bytes +111‎ →‎Alloyed branch prediction: Fill in more parameters. undo
• curprev 01:1701:17, 6 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,394 bytes +241‎ →‎Agree predictor: Fill in more parameters. undo
• curprev 01:0501:05, 6 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,153 bytes +14‎ Update links to Mark Smotherman's site. undo
• curprev 01:0301:03, 6 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,139 bytes +25‎ Point to the current version of the z/Architecture Principles of Operation. It's a book, so use {{cite book}}. undo
• curprev 00:4600:46, 6 July 2023‎ Citation bot talk contribs‎ 40,114 bytes +16‎ Alter: template type. Add: type. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Guy Harris | #UCB_webform undo

5 July 2023

• curprev 23:1923:19, 5 July 2023‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,098 bytes −129‎ Mark dead and live links as such. Use {{cite conference}} for a conference paper, and use a link that gives you a copy of the paper. undo

30 June 2023

• curprev 19:0519:05, 30 June 2023‎ Trappist the monk talk contribs‎ m 40,227 bytes −146‎ cite repair; undo

26 January 2023

• curprev 05:5405:54, 26 January 2023‎ WhoAteMyButter talk contribs‎ m 40,373 bytes 0‎ MOS:IMAGESIZE undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

19 December 2022

• curprev 18:2218:22, 19 December 2022‎ Partofthemachine talk contribs‎ 40,373 bytes +4‎ →‎History undo

3 November 2022

• curprev 02:0902:09, 3 November 2022‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,369 bytes +194‎ Use the Wayback Machine for another dead link. undo
• curprev 01:5701:57, 3 November 2022‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,175 bytes +1‎ →‎History: Fix </ref>. undo
• curprev 01:5401:54, 3 November 2022‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,174 bytes 0‎ "Proceedings of" is the beginning of the title of a book giving the proceedings of a conference; what follows is usually the title of the conference in question. Use "book-title=" for them. undo
• curprev 01:5001:50, 3 November 2022‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,174 bytes +6‎ That's a conference paper, not a journal article, so use {{cite conference}}. undo
• curprev 00:5500:55, 3 November 2022‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 40,168 bytes +581‎ Update URLs, use the Wayback Machine for some now-dead URLs. undo
• curprev 00:2800:28, 3 November 2022‎ Citation bot talk contribs‎ 39,587 bytes +346‎ Alter: title, template type. Add: isbn, pages, year, s2cid, doi, chapter, chapter-url, date, authors 1-4. Removed or converted URL. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by Guy Harris | #UCB_webform undo
• curprev 00:2600:26, 3 November 2022‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 39,241 bytes +203‎ Use citation templates. undo

2 November 2022

• curprev 21:1121:11, 2 November 2022‎ InternetArchiveBot talk contribs‎ 39,038 bytes +527‎ Rescuing 4 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.9.2) (Whoop whoop pull up - 11355 undo

20 August 2022

• curprev 12:1612:16, 20 August 2022‎ 130.208.182.103 talk‎ 38,511 bytes +2‎ Fix link undo

1 August 2022

• curprev 20:2520:25, 1 August 2022‎ 88.19.3.149 talk‎ 38,509 bytes 0‎ Fix punctuation undo
• curprev 20:2420:24, 1 August 2022‎ 88.19.3.149 talk‎ 38,509 bytes −85‎ Simplified the wording of the possibilities of the conditional branch undo

27 April 2022

• curprev 11:2511:25, 27 April 2022‎ Ffffrr talk contribs‎ 38,594 bytes +38‎ Adding local short description: "Digital circuit", overriding Wikidata description "digital circuit that guesses which way a branch will go to improve flow in the instruction pipeline" (Shortdesc helper) undo

7 April 2022

• curprev 17:4417:44, 7 April 2022‎ Guy Harris talk contribs‎ 38,556 bytes −12‎ I suspect what was meant was high "effective performance", but I'm not sure how "effective performance" would differ from boring old ordinary performance here, so just to with "high computer performance". undo
• curprev 17:3317:33, 7 April 2022‎ 2601:155:4301:cb00:d1e7:5619:6a53:3b9f talk‎ 38,568 bytes +2‎ No edit summary undo

30 December 2021

• curprev 00:2000:20, 30 December 2021‎ Vt320 talk contribs‎ 38,566 bytes 0‎ use correct capitalization of Power undo

8 November 2021

• curprev 09:4109:41, 8 November 2021‎ Skullcinema talk contribs‎ 38,566 bytes +2‎ cite patent fix undo

17 October 2021

• curprev 15:4715:47, 17 October 2021‎ MrOllie talk contribs‎ 38,564 bytes −164‎ and another undo
• curprev 15:4215:42, 17 October 2021‎ MrOllie talk contribs‎ 38,728 bytes −481‎ Restored revision 1027411802 by InternetArchiveBot (talk): COI / selflink undo Tags: Twinkle Undo
• curprev 15:3915:39, 17 October 2021‎ TheKanter talk contribs‎ m 39,209 bytes +481‎ →‎Overriding branch prediction: Adding example of overriding branch predictor with citation. undo Tags: Reverted Visual edit

7 June 2021

• curprev 19:2719:27, 7 June 2021‎ InternetArchiveBot talk contribs‎ 38,728 bytes +520‎ Rescuing 3 sources and tagging 0 as dead.) #IABot (v2.0.8 undo

24 May 2021

• curprev 20:5820:58, 24 May 2021‎ 216.228.112.21 talk‎ 38,208 bytes −109‎ →‎Agree predictor undo

22 May 2021

• curprev 15:5215:52, 22 May 2021‎ Serols talk contribs‎ m 38,317 bytes −11‎ Reverted edits by 146.230.43.116 (talk) (HG) (3.4.10) undo Tag: Rollback
• curprev 15:5215:52, 22 May 2021‎ 146.230.43.116 talk‎ 38,328 bytes +11‎ →‎Dynamic branch prediction undo Tag: Reverted

11 May 2021

• curprev 06:0106:01, 11 May 2021‎ Citation bot talk contribs‎ 38,317 bytes −8‎ Alter: url, issue, pages. URLs might have been anonymized. Add: s2cid, pages, year, authors 1-1. Removed parameters. Formatted dashes. Some additions/deletions were parameter name changes. | Use this bot. Report bugs. | Suggested by SemperIocundus | #UCB_webform undo

6 May 2021

• curprev 00:5900:59, 6 May 2021‎ MrOllie talk contribs‎ 38,325 bytes −236‎ clean out apparent COI / refspam undo Tag: Visual edit

3 May 2021

• curprev 12:0012:00, 3 May 2021‎ WikiCleanerBot talk contribs‎ m 38,561 bytes 0‎ v2.04b - Bot T20 CW#61 - Fix errors for CW project (Reference before punctuation) undo Tag: WPCleaner

23 April 2021

• curprev 16:2216:22, 23 April 2021‎ Comp.arch talk contribs‎ m 38,561 bytes +20‎ No edit summary undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor

6 March 2021

• curprev 20:0120:01, 6 March 2021‎ Exploredragon talk contribs‎ 38,541 bytes +358‎ Added a citation on branch misprediction undo Tag: Visual edit