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   glen herrmannsfeldt to Joel Yliluoma   
   Re: Reordering of functions   
   20 Feb 08 13:12:19   
   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Joel Yliluoma wrote:   
      
   (snip)   
      
   > Aren't "with branch prediction" and "caches are disabled" somewhat   
   > mutually exclusive statements?   
      
   Well, to many people cache unqualified means data or instruction cache.   
      
   Note also that there are static branch prediction systems that   
   don't use a cache at all.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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