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Recently, the combination of semiconductor manufacturing technology scaling and pressure to reduce semiconductor system costs and power consumption has resulted in the development of computer systems responsible for executing a mix of safety-critical and non-critical tasks. However, such systems are poorly utilized if lockstep execution forces all processor cores to execute the same task even when not executing safety-critical tasks. Execution fingerprinting has emerged as an alternative to n-modular redundancy for verifying redundant execution without requiring that all cores execute the same task or even execute redundant tasks concurrently. Fingerprinting takes a bit stream characterizing the execution of a task and compresses it into a single, fixed-width word or fingerprint. Fingerprinting has several key advantages. First, it reduces redundancy-checking bandwidth by compressing changes to external state into a single, fixed-width word.