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wren6991
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October 24, 2017 at 6:49 am
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#3053

At 33:24 in the video, it seems like both decoders will see non-zero lag counts at the same time: 1 on the left side, and 2 on the right side. Since there are no explicit no-ops here, each of these non-zero-lag instructions must immediately follow the previous instructions in memory.

So how does the machine figure out that the right side NOPs first, and the left side NOPs second? Is there some canonical order? Is this encoded? Or is it something clever? 🙂