According to one or more embodiments, the IOM 13 in {HEAD ~ processor} 10 includes additional circuits and {TAIL ~ logic} that facilitate efficiently flushing the lower pipeline upon discovery of a mispredicted branch instruction 
According to one or more embodiments , the IOM 13 in { HEAD ~ processor } 10 includes additional circuits and { TAIL ~ logic } that facilitate efficiently flushing the lower pipeline upon discovery of a mispredicted branch instruction
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