In this note we review the development of the first commercial branch and bound codes at CEIR/Scicon, with particular emphasis on those features not commonly emphasized today - t...
The conditional branch has long been considered an expensive operation. The relative cost of conditional branches has increased as recently designed machines are now relying on de...
Branches that depend directly or indirectly on load instructions are a leading cause of mispredictions by state-of-the-art branch predictors. For a branch of this type, there is a...