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by sakras 1261 days ago
According to [1], 88% of the speedup given by OOO processors is due to speculation, and the reordering in the case of cache misses attributed around 10% of the speedup. If OOO in general gives around a 50% speedup compared to in-order designs, reordering in the face of cache misses gives only around a 5% speedup. If you use a good static schedule with speculation, you'll get the bulk of the speedup. The rest can be recovered by increasing the clock rate by 5%, since you'll have gotten rid of so much silicon.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1145/2451116.2451143

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Nice paper!