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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2003
Jeffrey P. Rupley, Round Rock, TX (US);
Edward A. Brekelbaum, Austin, TX (US);
Edward T. Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey P. Rupley, Round Rock, TX (US);
Edward A. Brekelbaum, Austin, TX (US);
Edward T. Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of an apparatus, method, and system provide for no-operation instruction ('NOP') folding such that information regarding the presence of a NOP instruction in the instruction stream is folded into a buffer entry for another instruction. Information regarding a target NOP instruction is thus maintained in a buffer entry associated with an instruction other than the target NOP instruction. For at least one embodiment, NOP information is folded into entries of a re-order buffer.