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imbecile
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March 31, 2014 at 10:49 am
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#917

exit
An operation that transfers control to a new EBB. This can be a branch or a jump or a call, with immediate addresses or from a belt slot. Calls don’t neccessarily need to be exists though when taken.
Exits are also what is kept in the prediction tables, one for each EBB, instead of each branch.