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Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding (www.techradar.com)
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[–] Chocrates@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Processors have an execution pipeline, so a single command like mov has some number of actions the CPU takes to execute it. CPU designers already have some magic that allows them to execute these out of order as well as other stuff like pre calculating what they think the next command will probably be.

It's been a decade since my cpu class so I am butchering that explanation, but I think that is what they are proposing messing with