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It’s mostly that you can only pull instructions off the queue from the front, whereas with ARM since the size is fixed you can just pull them off anywhere.

I think with x86 Intel and AMD are basically brute forcing this by just pulling instructions off a random position and hoping it’s a correct offset, but it’s very inefficient.



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