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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.