MICRO ARCHITECTURE FOR INDIRECT ACCESS TO A REGISTER FILE IN A PROCESSOR

A method and system for improving performance and latency of instruction execution within an execution pipeline in a processor. The method includes finding, while decoding an instruction, a pointer register used by the instruction; reading the pointer register; validating a pointer register entry; reading, if the pointer register entry is valid, a register file entry; validating a register file entry; validating, if the register file entry is invalid, a valid register file entry wherein the valid register file entry is in the register file's future file; bypassing, if the valid register file entry is valid, a valid register file value from the register file's future file to the execution pipeline wherein the valid register file value is in the valid register file entry; and executing the instruction using the valid register file value; wherein at least one of the steps is carried out using a computer device.