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ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Despite years of study, branch mispredictions remain as a significant performance impediment in pipelined superscalar processors. In general, the branch misprediction penalty can...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2004
IEEE
Branch misprediction penalty consists of two components: the time wasted on mis-speculative execution until the mispredicted branch is resolved and the time to restart the pipelin...
HIPEAC
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
MICRO
1994
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1994
IEEE
Branch instructions are recognized as a major impediment to exploiting instruction level parallelism. Even with sophisticated branch prediction techniques, many frequently execute...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2006
IEEE
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 ...