| CPC G06F 9/3814 (2013.01) [G06F 9/30149 (2013.01); G06F 9/3822 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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19. A method comprising:
extracting content of a plurality of fetch queue elements from a pointer-based fetch queue;
applying combinatorial logic to speculatively produce, from said content, a plurality of speculative potential instructions;
transmitting each speculative potential instruction to a corresponding one of a plurality of decode units;
at said plurality of decode units, decoding received speculative potential instructions, thereby producing a plurality of decoded speculative potential instructions;
extracting a subset of said plurality of decoded speculative potential instructions; and
transmitting said subset to pipeline component circuitry.
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