ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper examines the performance of desktop applications running on the Microsoft Windows NT operating system on Intel x86 processors, and contrasts these applications to the p...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Branch prediction has enabled microprocessors to increase instruction level parallelism (ILP) by allowing programs to speculatively execute beyond control boundaries. Although spe...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Modern cache designs exploit spatial locality by fetching large blocks of data called cache lines on a cache miss. Subsequent references to words within the same cache line result...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
In the past decade. there has been much literature describing various cache organizatrons that exploit general programming idiosyncrasies to obtain maxrmum hit rate (the probabili...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Control-flow misprediction penalties are a major impediment to high performance in wide-issue superscalar processors. In this paper we present Selective Eager Execution (SEE), an ...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Commercial applications are an important, yet often overlooked, workload with significantly different characteristics from technical workloads. The potential impact of these diffe...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Much of the improvement in computer performance over the last twenty years has come from faster transistors and architectural advances that increase parallelism. Historically, par...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
1998
IEEE
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors that execute instructions speculatively. Some of the best current predic...