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80386 Early Start Memory Access

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-23 Cached

The article explains the Early Start memory access technique in Intel's 80386, which hides memory latency by overlapping address generation with the previous instruction's last cycle. It describes the implementation of this technique in the z386 FPGA core, achieving ao486-class performance and a 39% improvement in Doom FPS.

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