MICRO
2006
IEEE
14 years 12 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 ...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2005
IEEE
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...