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CJ
1999
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13 years 10 months ago
Source Level Static Branch Prediction
The ability to predict the directions of branches, especially conditional branches, is an important problem in modern computer architecture and advanced compilers. Many static and...
W. F. Wong
MICRO
1995
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
A system level perspective on branch architecture performance
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald, Joel S. Emer
ISCA
1998
IEEE
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14 years 3 months ago
Alternative Implementations of Two-Level Adaptive Branch Prediction
As the issue rate and depth of pipelining of high performance Superscalar processors increase, the importance of an excellent branch predictor becomes more vital to delivering the...
Tse-Yu Yeh, Yale N. Patt
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
The Effect of Code Reordering on Branch Prediction
Branch prediction accuracy is a very important factor for superscalarprocessor performance. The ability topredict the outcome of a branch allows the processor to effectively use a...
Alex Ramírez, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Mate...
APCSAC
2005
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
An Integrated Partitioning and Scheduling Based Branch Decoupling
Conditional branch induced control hazards cause significant performance loss in modern out-of-order superscalar processors. Dynamic branch prediction techniques help alleviate th...
Pramod Ramarao, Akhilesh Tyagi