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#162 – Jim Keller: The Future of Computing, AI, Life, and Consciousness

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Branch Prediction

Branch prediction is one of the key problems underlying all of sort of the lowest level of software. Computers are limited by, you know, single thread computerslimited by two things. The predictability of the path of the branches and the Predictability of the locality of data. We have predictors that now predict both of those pretty well.

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