MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
2006
IEEE
Wish branches, a new class of control-flow instructions, allow the hardware to dynamically decide whether or not to use predicated execution for a dynamic branch instruction. The ...
IEEEPACT
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper, we study the effects of manipulating the architected direction of conditional branches. Through the use of statistical sampling, we find that about 40% of all dyna...