Many current general purpose processors use extensions to the instruction set architecture to enhance the performance of digital image processing and multimedia applications. In t...
Phaisit Chewputtanagul, David Jeff Jackson, Kennet...
This paper presents a detailed branch characterization of an Oracle based commercial on-line transaction processing workload, Oracle Database Benchmark (ODB), running on an IA32 p...
Modern processors include features such as deep pipelining, multilevel cache hierarchy, branch predictors, out of order execution engine, and advanced floating point and multimedi...