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   Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 02:20:33 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

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   https://blog.codingconfessions.com/i/158157210/the-drive-through-restaurant-analogy

   Funny that apparently someone managed to come to the same metaphor, two and a half years later :haha:

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     Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 02:20:34 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

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     Like, the staff apparently is cooking our food out-of-order but since everyone's waiting in one long queue the food must be delivered in-order.
     And since, for some reason our food took a long time to be ready so we ended up waiting there at the counter, blocking God knows how many other people behind...

     I suppose this is what the techies call "processor stalls because the ROB head is blocked" :02smile:

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     Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 02:20:35 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

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     *decode and commit, lol
     Issuing instructions to execution units is the part that can be done out-of-order

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     Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd (koakuma@uwu.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Mar-2025 02:20:36 JST Sun Microdevil Pte Ltd

     The idea that OoO processors still needing to decode and issue instructions in-order really confuses me... until I somehow got into a long queue at a McDonald's drive-through :akkoderp: