Mispredicted branches and loads that miss in the cache cause the majority of retirement stalls experienced by sequential processors; we call these critical instructions. Despite t...
Reduced energy consumption is one of the most important design goals for embedded application domains like wireless, multimedia and biomedical. Instruction memory hierarchy has be...
Praveen Raghavan, Andy Lambrechts, Murali Jayapala...
Previous research on runahead execution took it for granted as a prefetch-only technique. Even though the results of instructions independent of an L2 miss are correctly computed d...
Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, Jared Stark, Yale N. Patt
Java bytecodes can be executed with the following three methods: a Java interpretor running on a particular machine interprets bytecodes; a Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler translates ...
Conventional instruction fetch mechanisms fetch contiguous blocks of instructions in each cycle. They are difficult to scale since taken branches make it hard to increase the siz...