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JSA
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
Dynamic feature selection for hardware prediction
It is often possible to greatly improve the performance of a hardware system via the use of predictive (speculative) techniques. For example, the performance of out-of-order micro...
Alan Fern, Robert Givan, Babak Falsafi, T. N. Vija...
EXPCS
2007
13 years 11 months ago
Introducing entropies for representing program behavior and branch predictor performance
Predictors are inherent components of state-of-the-art microprocessors. Branch predictors are discussed actively from diverse perspectives. Performance of a branch predictor large...
Takashi Yokota, Kanemitsu Ootsu, Takanobu Baba
CF
2007
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Computational and storage power optimizations for the O-GEHL branch predictor
In recent years, highly accurate branch predictors have been proposed primarily for high performance processors. Unfortunately such predictors are extremely energy consuming and i...
Kaveh Aasaraai, Amirali Baniasadi, Ehsan Atoofian
CORR
2006
Springer
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On Conditional Branches in Optimal Search Trees
A commonly used type of search tree is the alphabetic binary tree, which uses (without loss of generality) "less than" versus "greater than or equal to" tests ...
Michael B. Baer
MICRO
1998
IEEE
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A Dynamic Multithreading Processor
We present an architecture that features dynamic multithreading execution of a single program. Threads are created automatically by hardware at procedure and loop boundaries and e...
Haitham Akkary, Michael A. Driscoll