Runahead
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Runahead is a noun meaning (computing) The speculative execution of code that may or may not be required to execute, so that the results are available in advance if that branch is in fact subsequently taken.
Meaning
(computing) The speculative execution of code that may or may not be required to execute, so that the results are available in advance if that branch is in fact subsequently taken.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lookahead, prerun, prefetch, prepaging, preemption, precomputation.
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