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PLDI
1998
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1998
ACM
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...
APCSAC
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2006
IEEE
This paper describes a new on-demand wakeup prediction policy for instruction cache leakage control that achieves better leakage savings than prior policies, and avoids the perform...
ISCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1997
IEEE
As the issue rate and pipeline depth of high performance superscalar processors increase, the amount of speculative work issued also increases. Because speculative work must be th...
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
2000
IEEE
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...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1998
IEEE
Indirect branch prediction is likely to become increasingly important in the future because indirect branches occur more frequently in object-oriented programs. With misprediction ...