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HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Branch History Matching: Branch Predictor Warmup for Sampled Simulation
Computer architects and designers rely heavily on simulation. The downside of simulation is that it is very time-consuming — simulating an industry-standard benchmark on todayâ€...
Simon Kluyskens, Lieven Eeckhout
ISCA
1993
IEEE
113views Hardware» more  ISCA 1993»
13 years 9 months ago
A Comparison of Dynamic Branch Predictors that Use Two Levels of Branch History
Recent attention to speculative execution as a mechanism for increasing performance of single instruction streams has demanded substantially better branch prediction than what has...
Tse-Yu Yeh, Yale N. Patt
IJPP
2008
72views more  IJPP 2008»
13 years 4 months ago
Modulo Path History for the Reduction of Pipeline Overheads in Path-based Neural Branch Predictors
Neural-inspired branch predictors achieve very low branch misprediction rates. However, previously proposed implementations have a variety of characteristics that make them challen...
Gabriel H. Loh, Daniel A. Jiménez
ISCA
1998
IEEE
102views Hardware» more  ISCA 1998»
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic History-length Fitting: A Third Level of Adaptivity for Branch Prediction
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors that execute instructions speculatively. Some of the best current predic...
Toni Juan, Sanji Sanjeevan, Juan J. Navarro