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Can you elaborate on what is meant by "optimizations leaking out"? I am not familiar with this term. Thanks.


Like, implementation details that leak out into the architecture for optimization reasons. Classic example is branch delay slots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_slot.


Thanks this is very interesting.




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