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