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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
1994
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1994
IEEE
High performance architectures have always had to deal with the performance-limiting impact of branch operations. Microprocessor designs are going to have to deal with this proble...
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1997
IEEE
This paper introduces a new architectural approach that supports compiler-synthesized dynamic branch predication. In compiler-synthesized dynamic branch prediction, the compiler g...
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 ...
MICRO
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Predicated execution has been used to reduce the number of branch mispredictions by eliminating hard-to-predict branches. However, the additional instruction overhead and addition...