Target Prediction for Indirect Jumps

As the issue rate and pipeline depth of high performance superscalar processors increase, the amount of speculative work issued also increases. Because speculative work must be thrown away in the event of a branch misprediction, wide-issue, deeply pipelined processors must employ accurate branch predictors to e ectively exploit their performance potential. Many existing branch prediction schemes are capable of accurately predicting the direction of conditional branches. However, these schemes are ine ective in predicting the targets of indirect jumps achieving, on aver

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ISCA
• Authors: Po-Yung Chang, Eric Hao, Yale N. Patt
• Keywords: Accurate Branch Predictors, Hardware, ISCA 1997, Performance Superscalar Processors, Speculative Work