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ISCA
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
VPC prediction: reducing the cost of indirect branches via hardware-based dynamic devirtualization
Indirect branches have become increasingly common in modular programs written in modern object-oriented languages and virtualmachine based runtime systems. Unfortunately, the pred...
Hyesoon Kim, José A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, Chan...
ISCA
1997
IEEE
98views Hardware» more  ISCA 1997»
13 years 8 months ago
Target Prediction for Indirect Jumps
As the issue rate and pipeline depth of high performance superscalar processors increase, the amount of speculative work issued also increases. Because speculative work must be th...
Po-Yung Chang, Eric Hao, Yale N. Patt
ISLPED
2004
ACM
108views Hardware» more  ISLPED 2004»
13 years 10 months ago
SEPAS: a highly accurate energy-efficient branch predictor
Designers have invested much effort in developing accurate branch predictors with short learning periods. Such techniques rely on exploiting complex and relatively large structure...
Amirali Baniasadi, Andreas Moshovos
VLSID
2007
IEEE
100views VLSI» more  VLSID 2007»
14 years 5 months ago
Hardware Efficient Piecewise Linear Branch Predictor
Piecewise linear branch predictor has been demonstrated to have superior prediction accuracy; however, its huge hardware overhead prevents the predictor from being practical in the...
Jiajin Tu, Jian Chen, Lizy K. John
DSN
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Augmenting Branch Predictor to Secure Program Execution
Although there are various ways to exploit software vulnerabilities for malicious attacks, the attacks always result in unexpected behavior in program execution, deviating from wh...
Yixin Shi, Gyungho Lee