Hey, author here. Tomasulo's algorithm is a means of out or order execution, and that was invented and implemented by IBM in the 1960s. It was designed for their floating point operations, specifically. I don't remember if they also implemented speculative execution.

I'll add the word 'common' before exceptions. Thanks for feedback.

What's weird about it? It's the standard Wordpress cookie policy.

I couldn't choose like most sites

I clicked "learn more" and then I got a "disagree" button. Not really the most intuitive flow but it's there...

Weird, I'll investigate tomorrow, thank you.

Author here. I'll work this in. Thank you.

Author here. You can only write so much before you start to lose the audience -- do you believe that anything you mentioned in your list is inherently lacking from my post?

Cool trick with the function pointer comparison!