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PLDI
1993
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Branch Prediction For Free
Thomas Ball, James R. Larus
ISPASS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Simulation Differences Between Academia and Industry: A Branch Prediction Case Study
Computer architecture research in academia and industry is heavily reliant on simulation studies. While microprocessor companies have the resources to develop highly detailed simu...
Gabriel H. Loh
ISCA
1995
IEEE
121views Hardware» more  ISCA 1995»
13 years 8 months ago
A Comparative Analysis of Schemes for Correlated Branch Prediction
Modern high-performance architectures require extremely accurate branch prediction to overcome the performance limitations of conditional branches. We present a framework that cat...
Cliff Young, Nicholas C. Gloy, Michael D. Smith
MICRO
2006
IEEE
106views Hardware» more  MICRO 2006»
13 years 4 months ago
Wish Branches: Enabling Adaptive and Aggressive Predicated Execution
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
MICRO
1994
IEEE
118views Hardware» more  MICRO 1994»
13 years 8 months ago
Characterizing the impact of predicated execution on branch prediction
Branch instructions are recognized as a major impediment to exploiting instruction level parallelism. Even with sophisticated branch prediction techniques, many frequently execute...
Scott A. Mahlke, Richard E. Hank, Roger A. Bringma...