Mill Computing, Inc. Forums The Mill Architecture Prediction Reply To: Prediction

LarryP
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Greetings all,

For some perspective on the economic value of improved prediction, you might enjoy reading about a recent, large ($862 million US) patent-infringement award against Apple. Here’s a news article:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/apple-faces-862m-patent-damage-claim-from-university-of-wisconsin/

And the underlying patent (US5781752):
https://www.google.com/patents/US5781752

To me, this says that:

* Improvements to prediction meaningfully improve performance of real CPUs.

* Even incremental improvements in prediction are worth hundreds of millions of dollars!

It will be most interesting to see how the Mill’s prediction (and anti-false-aliasing deferred load) mechanisms work in practice to improve single-thread performance.