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ISCA
1989
IEEE
15 years 7 months ago
1989
IEEE
Pipelining has become a common technique to increase throughput of the instruction fetch, instruction decode, and instruction execution portions of modern computers. Branch instru...
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ISCA
2007
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
2007
IEEE
Indirect branches have become increasingly common in modular programs written in modern object-oriented languages and virtualmachine based runtime systems. Unfortunately, the pred...
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HPCA
2007
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
If-conversion is a compiler technique that reduces the misprediction penalties caused by hard-to-predict branches, transforming control dependencies into data dependencies. Althou...
VLSID
2007
IEEE
16 years 3 months ago
2007
IEEE
Piecewise linear branch predictor has been demonstrated to have superior prediction accuracy; however, its huge hardware overhead prevents the predictor from being practical in the...
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MICRO
2005
IEEE
15 years 8 months ago
2005
IEEE
Predicated execution has been used to reduce the number of branch mispredictions by eliminating hard-to-predict branches. However, the additional instruction overhead and addition...