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 ...
Hyesoon Kim, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt, Jared Stark
Predicated execution has been used to reduce the number of branch mispredictions by eliminating hard-to-predict branches. However, the additional instruction overhead and addition...
Hyesoon Kim, Onur Mutlu, Jared Stark, Yale N. Patt