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Comment by chrisfeilbach

7 months ago

Hey, author here. Tomasulo's algorithm is a means of out or order execution, and that was invented and implemented by IBM in the 1960s. It was designed for their floating point operations, specifically. I don't remember if they also implemented speculative execution.

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