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Patent Number
Patent Inventor Names
Jeffrey P. Rupley0
Edward A. Brekelbaum0
Edward T. Grochowski0
Date of Patent
September 19, 2006
Patent Application Number
10606511
Date Filed
June 25, 2003
Patent Primary Examiner
Patent 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.
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