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ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Experiment flows and microbenchmarks for reverse engineering of branch predictor structures
Insights into branch predictor organization and operation can be used in architecture-aware compiler optimizations to improve program performance. Unfortunately, such details are ...
Vladimir Uzelac, Aleksandar Milenkovic
HPCA
2002
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
Power Issues Related to Branch Prediction
This paper explores the role of branch predictor organization in power/energy/performance tradeoffs for processor design. We find that as a general rule, to reduce overall energy ...
Dharmesh Parikh, Kevin Skadron, Yan Zhang, Marco B...