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[0019] The description that follows includes exemplary systems, methods, techniques, instruction sequences and computer program products that embody techniques of the present invention. However, it is understood that the described invention may be practiced without these specific details. For instance, storing branch predictions for groups of instructions can be implemented with various data structures (e.g., hash tables, binary search trees, etc.) and / or with hardware mechanisms (e.g., hardware tables, content addressable memory, etc.). In other instances, well-known protocols, structures and techniques have not been shown in detail in order not to obscure the invention.

[0020] In particular, architecting a high performance processing environment that reconciles high frequency operation, pipeline processing environments with multiple threads, multiple cores, and / or multiple processors process instructions at a high rate. A high bandwidth pipeline for such processing environments