One can e ectively utilize predicated execution to improve branch handling in instruction-level parallel processors. Although the potential bene ts of predicated execution are hig...
Scott A. Mahlke, Richard E. Hank, James E. McCormi...
Modern compilers must expose sufficient amounts of Instruction-Level Parallelism (ILP) to achieve the promised performance increases of superscalar and VLIW processors. One of the...
David I. August, John W. Sias, Jean-Michel Puiatti...
The poor scalability of existing superscalar processors has been of great concern to the computer engineering community. In particular, the critical-path lengths of many components...
Bradley C. Kuszmaul, Dana S. Henry, Gabriel H. Loh