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SIGMETRICS
2011
ACM
12 years 10 months ago
2011
ACM
Branch taken rate and transition rate have been proposed as metrics to characterize the branch predictability. However, these two metrics may misclassify branches with regular his...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1998
IEEE
The importance of an accurate branch prediction mechanism has been well documented. Since the
CF
2010
ACM
14 years 16 days ago
2010
ACM
Branches that depend directly or indirectly on load instructions are a leading cause of mispredictions by state-of-the-art branch predictors. For a branch of this type, there is a...
CAL
2007
13 years 7 months ago
2007
1 – In this paper, we propose a new class of branch predictors, complementary branch predictors, which can be easily added to any branch predictor to improve the overall predicti...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1998
IEEE
Pipeline flushes due to branch mispredictions is one of the most serious problems facing the designer of a deeply pipelined, superscalar processor. Many branch predictors have bee...