misspeculate

verb

Etymology

From mis- + speculate.

  1. borrowed from speculātus
  2. prefixed as misspeculate — “mis + speculate

Definitions

  1. To speculate incorrectly

    To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.

    • Consequently, in the absence of faults, the trailing thread's branches never misfetch or mispredict and the trailing thread never misspeculates.
    • Another example is a branch predictor that misspeculates with unusually high frequency [36, 37].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for misspeculate. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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