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EUROPAR
2005
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
The Combined Perceptron Branch Predictor
— Previous works have shown that neural branch prediction techniques achieve far lower misprediction rate than traditional approaches. We propose a neural predictor based on two ...
Matteo Monchiero, Gianluca Palermo
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
The Effect of Code Reordering on Branch Prediction
Branch prediction accuracy is a very important factor for superscalarprocessor performance. The ability topredict the outcome of a branch allows the processor to effectively use a...
Alex Ramírez, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Mate...
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Architectural Support for Compiler-Synthesized Dynamic Branch Prediction Strategies: Rationale and Initial Results
This paper introduces a new architectural approach that supports compiler-synthesized dynamic branch predication. In compiler-synthesized dynamic branch prediction, the compiler g...
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, John C. Gyllen...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Dynamic Data Dependence Tracking and its Application to Branch Prediction
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
Lei Chen, Steve Dropsho, David H. Albonesi
ICCD
2003
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Improving Branch Prediction Accuracy in Embedded Processors in the Presence of Context Switches
Embedded processors like Intel’s XScale use dynamic branch prediction to improve performance. Due to the presence of context switches, the accuracy of these predictors is reduce...
Sudeep Pasricha, Alexander V. Veidenbaum