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xenadu02 on Jan 8, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

Even if they had the fixed version the branch predictor could still decide to predict the instruction would be hit right? Your ultimate analysis seems correct: the instruction is unsafe to have anywhere.

syncsynchalt on Jan 8, 2018 [–]

In humans we have a similar problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory aka "don't think of a pink elephant"

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