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You could always put NOPs into delay slots by default and replace them later with something more useful.


no, you could not "always" find something useful to put there later. gross exaggeration


You misunderstood parent. They meant you can always nop the branch delay, and you might find something more useful for it later


that may have been what they wanted to write. unfortunately they wrote something wrong and misleading instead. i understood what they wrote perfectly well and the implication therein isn't, somehow, my fault


The "always" qualifier does not apply to anything after the "and". Why do you assume it does? You are being very combative and pedantic so I assume you have a diehard rule for this that you can reference? Like some english grammar handbook?




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