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ASPLOS
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
2009
ACM
Modern processors use branch target buffers (BTBs) to predict the target address of branches such that they can fetch ahead in the instruction stream increasing concurrency and pe...
ISCAPDCS
2003
13 years 9 months ago
2003
Branch predictors and processor front-ends have been the focus of a number of computer architecture studies. Typically they are evaluated separately from other components using tr...
CORR
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
2006
Springer
The decision tree is one of the most fundamental ing abstractions. A commonly used type of decision tree is the alphabetic binary tree, which uses (without loss of generality) &quo...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
2008
IEEE
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
ISCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1997
IEEE
As processor architectures have increased their reliance on speculative execution to improve performance, the importance of accurate prediction of what to execute speculatively ha...