Instruction combining is an optimization to replace a sequence of instructions with a more efficient instruction yielding the same result in a fewer machine cycles. When we use it...
Ongoing changes in computer performance are affecting the efficiency of string sorting algorithms. The size of main memory in typical computers continues to grow, but memory acce...
Increasing the number of instruction queue (IQ) entries in a dynamically scheduled processor exposes more instruction-level parallelism, leading to higher performance. However, in...
Steven E. Raasch, Nathan L. Binkert, Steven K. Rei...
Abstract—To deal with the “memory wall” problem, microprocessors include large secondary on-chip caches. But as these caches enlarge, they originate a new latency gap between...
Increasing the number of cores in a multi-core processor reduces per-core performance. On the other hand, providing more resources to each core limits the number of cores on a chi...