Comment Comment by joha4270 A lot of CPUs does not execute instructions directly, but instead translate them into a second set of "uOps"This allows it to split complex instructions into multiple operations instead of having dedicated hardware for it.High performance cores can also do the opposite trick of "fusing" two instructions into a single uOp: The usual example is compare-and-branch parent joha4270 2 months ago
This allows it to split complex instructions into multiple operations instead of having dedicated hardware for it.
High performance cores can also do the opposite trick of "fusing" two instructions into a single uOp: The usual example is compare-and-branch