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APCSAC
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Unbiased Branches: An Open Problem
The majority of currently available dynamic branch predictors base their prediction accuracy on the previous k branch outcomes. Such predictors sustain high prediction accuracy but...
Arpad Gellert, Adrian Florea, Maria Vintan, Colin ...
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Architectural Support for Compiler-Synthesized Dynamic Branch Prediction Strategies: Rationale and Initial Results
This paper introduces a new architectural approach that supports compiler-synthesized dynamic branch predication. In compiler-synthesized dynamic branch prediction, the compiler g...
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, John C. Gyllen...
RTAS
2003
IEEE
14 years 29 days ago
Analysis of the Execution Time Unpredictability caused by Dynamic Branch Prediction
This paper investigates how dynamic branch prediction in a microprocessor affects the predictability of execution time for software running on that processor. By means of experim...
Jakob Engblom
ISCA
1998
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
13 years 12 months ago
Dynamic History-length Fitting: A Third Level of Adaptivity for Branch Prediction
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors that execute instructions speculatively. Some of the best current predic...
Toni Juan, Sanji Sanjeevan, Juan J. Navarro
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Code placement for improving dynamic branch prediction accuracy
Code placement techniques have traditionally improved instruction fetch bandwidth by increasing instruction locality and decreasing the number of taken branches. However, traditio...
Daniel A. Jiménez