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> which is indeed 3-5 cycles depending to the specific microarchitecture

I assume you are talking about from fetch to hitting the store buffer? That would be the aabsolute min time before the data could be seen elsehwere I would think. It can still potentially be rolled back, and that would be higher than reciprocal be way too fast to sustain, but for a single instr burst, I'm not sure. So much happens at the same time, An L1 read hit will cost you 4 minimum, hut all but 1 of that is hidden. can't avoid the multi cost of 3 or add 1. the decoding and uop cache hit, reservation, etc will cost a few. I have no idea.

If you know of anything describing it in such detail, I would be comopletely curiouis.




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