On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:48 AM, Gabe Black <[email protected]> wrote:

> The skid buffer doesn't really have anything to do with it. Instructions
> are on the wire from fetch when the squash comes. Because they aren't
> actually in one stage or another they keep coming. By the time they
> arrive, decode isn't processing any more instructions since it's waiting
> for the squash to finish.

Which is why you should always sort the incoming instructions before you
actually process them, no? That sort, will either block them (putting them
in the skidBuffer) or let them be, right?

-- 
- Korey
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