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> extract the same information again in hardware

It isn't necessarily the same information. OoO engines happily speculate through branches without waiting for a test value to become available, forward values based on exact addresses rather than a static approximation thereof, etc. There are real advantages to doing things dynamically.




So does dynamic compilation, such as LuaJIT and PyPy ;)




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