MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Path profiles record the frequencies of execution paths through a program. Until now, the best global instruction schedulers have relied upon profile-gathered frequencies of condi...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Three dimensional (3D) graphics applications have become very important workloads running on today's computer systems. A cost-effective graphics solution is to perform geomet...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
The Multiscalar architecture advocates a distributed processor organization and task-level speculation to exploit high degrees of instruction level parallelism (ILP) in sequential...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper provides quantitative measurements of load latency tolerance in a dynamically scheduled processor. To determine the latency tolerance of each memory load operation, our...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
This paper evaluates several mechanisms for repairing the return-address stack after branch mispredictions. The return-address stack is a small but important structure for achievi...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Media applications are characterized by large amounts of available parallelism, little data reuse, and a high computation to memory access ratio. While these characteristics are p...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
Load latency remains a significant bottleneck in dynamically scheduled pipelined processors. Load speculation techniques have been proposed to reduce this latency. Dependence Pred...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
1998
IEEE
The inherent instruction-level parallelism (ILP) of current applications (specially those based on floating point computations) has driven hardware designers and compilers writers...