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by phire 504 days ago
Ah, that makes so much more sense.

So it does have a 2nd level BTB, it's just that it's labeled as IJTP and is potentially only used by indirect branches.

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No, that's not a second level BTB in that regular direct branches don't seem to use it. It's only for predicting indirect branches.