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Thursday, November 19, 2009 #

Speculative execution is a term applied to the execution of code that you may not need the results of. With the abundance of spare processing power on servers these days (and workstations for that matter), you can easily make an application be far more responsive to the user or make processing tasks on a server application quicker.