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ISCA
1989
IEEE
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Can Dataflow Subsume von Neumann Computing?
: We explore the question: “What can a von Neumann processor borrow from dataflow to make it more suitable for a multiprocessor?’’ Starting with a simple, “RISC-like” ins...
Rishiyur S. Nikhil
ISCA
1989
IEEE
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Comparing Software and Hardware Schemes For Reducing the Cost of Branches
Pipelining has become a common technique to increase throughput of the instruction fetch, instruction decode, and instruction execution portions of modern computers. Branch instru...
Wen-mei W. Hwu, Thomas M. Conte, Pohua P. Chang
ISCA
1989
IEEE
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Improving Performance of Small On-Chip Instruction Caches
Most current single-chip processors employ an on-chip instruction cache to improve performance. A miss in this insk-uction cache will cause an external memory reference which must...
Matthew K. Farrens, Andrew R. Pleszkun