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HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2003
IEEE
Predicated Execution can be used to alleviate the costs associated with frequently mispredicted branches. This is accomplished by trading the cost of a mispredicted branch for exe...
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
Conventional speculative architectures use branch prediction to evaluate the most likely execution path during program execution. However, certain branches are difficult to predic...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2007
IEEE
If-conversion is a compiler technique that reduces the misprediction penalties caused by hard-to-predict branches, transforming control dependencies into data dependencies. Althou...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
Commercial applications are an important, yet often overlooked, workload with significantly different characteristics from technical workloads. The potential impact of these diffe...
RTAS
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
This paper investigates how dynamic branch prediction in a microprocessor affects the predictability of execution time for software running on that processor. By means of experim...