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Will_Edwards
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The Mill has some mitigations, perhaps? It has an extremely small mispredict penalty (5 cycles) if the taken path is in the instruction cache. It can execute up to 6 dependent instructions in a single cycle. It also makes classic VLIW definitions of Very seem exaggerated 😉

What is predicted is very novel to the Mill, but the how is normal. There are predictors that try to predict the number of iterations and so on; these are implementation choices and models may differ.