Question

The advantage of static prediction is

(a) simple and fast

(b) does not require table lookups or calculations

(c) performs without much degradation

(d) all of the mentioned

This question was addressed to me during an interview.

Origin of the question is Netburst Microarchitecture For Pentium4 -2,  Instruction Translation Lookaside Buffer (ITLB) and Branch Prediction topic in section Pentium 4 processor of Microprocessor

Answer 1

Right option is (d) all of the mentioned

The best explanation: The static prediction is simple and fast. It does not require table lookups or calculations. In case if a program contains a number of loops, static prediction performs without much degradation.