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MICRO
1999
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1999
IEEE
Instruction supply is a crucial component of processor performance. Instruction prefetching has been proposed as a mechanism to help reduce instruction cache misses, which in turn...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 11 months ago
2004
IEEE
This paper proposes and evaluates hardware mechanisms for supporting prescient instruction prefetch--an approach to improving single-threaded application performance by using help...
IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2005
IEEE
As technological process shrinks and clock rate increases, instruction caches can no longer be accessed in one cycle. Alternatives are implementing smaller caches (with higher mis...
LCTRTS
2009
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
2009
Springer
Instruction fetch behavior has been shown to be very regular and predictable, even for diverse application areas. In this work, we propose the Lookahead Instruction Fetch Engine (...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
1998
IEEE
In the past decade. there has been much literature describing various cache organizatrons that exploit general programming idiosyncrasies to obtain maxrmum hit rate (the probabili...