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taken so then where would the penalty arise?

April 26, 2017arise penalty

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taken so then where would the penalty arise?

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The penalty is actually a negative penalty. If the address of the unconditional branch is in the BTB, there is a 0 cycle “penalty” (not really a penalty), but if the actual instruction is kept in the BTB then we actually save 1 cycle, so the “penalty” is -1 cycles.