Skia technique improves data center performance nearly 2X versus adding the same amount of storage to the existing hardware

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-04-skia-technique-decodes-shadow-boost.html

"instruction stream often too large, difficult to predict/ process... Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching predicts/ retrieves instructions before needed, for quicker performance/ less power consumption... overcomes when Branch Target Buffer faults, by identifying/ decoding in unused bytes, then storing in Shadow Branch Buffer memory, accessible alongside Branch Target Buffer... most future instructions already available, minimizing hardware costs... data centers"