(if any) the requested data resides in.

The first documented instance of a replay system was in Intel's Pentium 4 processor and has continued to be a feature of their subsequent processors. Some variation of this system is may exist in other superscalar processors but because it is an implementation detail that only impacts performance, it is rarely documented.

Overview

A traditional pipelined CPU has a register fetch stage near the beginning

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