Patent ID: 8799628

Claim:
A method comprising a first command issuing within a computer processor, wherein execution of the first command by the computer processor includes evaluating one or more conditions to set one or more flags stored in a storage element of the computer processor; subsequent to the first command issuing, a second command issuing within the computer processor, wherein execution of the second command by the computer processor includes causing the computer processor to wait until the one or more flags are set; and subsequent to the first and second commands issuing, a third command issuing within the computer processor, wherein execution of the third command by the computer processor includes performing a jump operation if at least one of the one or more flags set by the first command indicate that a jump condition is true, wherein performing the jump operation includes the storage element asserting a select signal directly to an address multiplexer to select an address of next command to be executed based on the storage element determining that the jump condition is true.