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misspeculate en · VERB

Etymology

From mis- + speculate.

Meanings

1. To speculate incorrectly; to make or act on a false conjecture.
   • Any engine that speculates can also misspeculate and must provide means to detect and recover from that condition. 2013, John Paul Shen, Mikko H. Lipasti, Modern Processor Design: Fundamentals of Superscalar Processors, page 331:
   • There is no reason why "aggrieved" persons should, by the contract law of damages, be put in a better position than they would have occupied had they performed; secondly, the agreed market and risk allocations should not be upset by the often unclear question of who was in breach; and thirdly, the law should not encourage those who misspeculate to escape obligation by claiming that the other person is, for some contrived reason, in breach. 2003, Richard E. Speidel, Ian Ayres, Studies in Contract Law, page 907:
   • Consequently, in the absence of faults, the trailing thread's branches never misfetch or mispredict and the trailing thread never misspeculates. 2011, Shubu Mukherjee, Architecture Design for Soft Errors, page 237:
   • Another example is a branch predictor that misspeculates with unusually high frequency [36, 37]. 2012, Smita Krishnaswamy, Igor L. Markov, John P. Hayes, Design, Analysis and Test of Logic Circuits Under Uncertainty, page 12:

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