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MICRO
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
1998
IEEE
The importance of an accurate branch prediction mechanism has been well documented. Since the
CF
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2010
ACM
Branches that depend directly or indirectly on load instructions are a leading cause of mispredictions by state-of-the-art branch predictors. For a branch of this type, there is a...
CAL
2007
13 years 5 months ago
2007
1 – In this paper, we propose a new class of branch predictors, complementary branch predictors, which can be easily added to any branch predictor to improve the overall predicti...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
1998
IEEE
Pipeline flushes due to branch mispredictions is one of the most serious problems facing the designer of a deeply pipelined, superscalar processor. Many branch predictors have bee...
ISCA
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2005
IEEE
Improved branch prediction accuracy is essential to sustaining instruction throughput with today’s deep pipelines. We introduce piecewise linear branch prediction, an idealized ...