Meaning of misfetch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An error that occurs when the wrong block of code is fetched in advance.
2. The act of fetching to the wrong location.

Examples

“It also shows the conditional branch misprediction rate ( due to both misprediction and target address misfetch), the return misprediction rate, and the BTB miss rate .”

“All branches and calls cause a misfetch when the branch is not present in the BTB.”

“Unfortunately, the typical optimizations for cachelike structures, such as larger capacity or associativity, will not help in decreasing misfetches.”

“Sometimes you had to work the weather side on account of that being too far to get across the sand to a wreck from the leeward. That wasn't very nice, because you hadn't got no shelter and if you made a misfetch you'd soon be up alongside the wreck yourself.”

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