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ASPLOS
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1994
ACM
Several researchers have proposed algorithms for basic block reordering. We call these branch alignment algorithms. The primary emphasis of these algorithms has been on improving ...
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
13 years 5 months ago
2009
Tsinghua U.
Modern processors require highly accurate branch prediction for good performance. As such, a number of branch predictors have been proposed with varying size and complexity. This ...
MICRO
1995
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
1995
IEEE
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...
PLDI
1995
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
1995
ACM
Correctly predicting the direction that branches will take is increasingly important in today’s wide-issue computer architectures. The name program-based branch prediction is gi...
SAC
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
2006
ACM
Modern embedded processors access the Branch Target Buffer (BTB) every cycle to speculate branch target addresses. Such accesses, quite often, are unnecessary as there is no branc...