[libre-riscv-dev] [Bug 206] Implement branch prediction

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http://bugs.libre-riscv.org/show_bug.cgi?id=206

--- Comment #2 from Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl at lkcl.net> ---
(In reply to Jacob Lifshay from comment #0)

> To avoid spectre-style data leaks where feasible, we should only send
> taken/not-taken data back to the branch predictor once all preceding
> branches are no longer speculative (tracked by dependency matrix).

that's going to be interesting.  all *preceding* branches.  do they
mean branches that are in play whilst *other* branches are still in play?
double-shadowing, in other words?

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