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MICRO
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
1999
IEEE
Branch mispredictions are a major obstacle to exploiting instruction-level parallelism, at least in part because all instructions after a mispredicted branch are squashed. However...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
1998
IEEE
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors that execute instructions speculatively. Some of the best current predic...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
1998
IEEE
Control-flow misprediction penalties are a major impediment to high performance in wide-issue superscalar processors. In this paper we present Selective Eager Execution (SEE), an ...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
1998
IEEE
Path profiles record the frequencies of execution paths through a program. Until now, the best global instruction schedulers have relied upon profile-gathered frequencies of condi...
ISCA
1993
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1993
IEEE
Recent attention to speculative execution as a mechanism for increasing performance of single instruction streams has demanded substantially better branch prediction than what has...