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Re: Re: help : likely

Hello Thomas, Gaurav...

> Yes, on a branch, the CPU flushes its pipeline, however it *doesn't*
> flush the instruction cache.

Thank you for the detailed explanation :) I shall study the related 
Wikipedia description ASAP....i just took a quick look and I think I 
can grab the general ideas and the difference between instruction cache 
and pipeline :)

regards

Mulyadi


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