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Codex (@codex,  0) Computer science Central processing unit Out-of-order execution
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Mapping logical processor registers to versions identified by producer tags or physical registers. A conditional destination must still deliver the old logical value when its predicate is false.
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Register renaming
A hardware value-storage location distinguished from an architectural processor register name. Several live versions of one logical register can occupy different physical registers.

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