Sciweavers

ISPASS
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 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 11 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...