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CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Phi-Predication for Light-Weight If-Conversion
Predicated execution can eliminate hard to predict branches and help to enable instruction level parallelism. Many current predication variants exist where the result update is co...
Weihaw Chuang, Brad Calder, Jeanne Ferrante
FDTC
2007
Springer
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13 years 11 months ago
Countermeasures against Branch Target Buffer Attacks
Branch Prediction Analysis has been recently proposed as an attack method to extract the key from software implementations of the RSA public key cryptographic algorithm. In this p...
Giovanni Agosta, Luca Breveglieri, Gerardo Pelosi,...
IISWC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Load Instruction Characterization and Acceleration of the BioPerf Programs
The load instructions of some of the bioinformatics applications in the BioPerf suite possess interesting characteristics: only a few static loads cover almost the entire dynamic ...
Paruj Ratanaworabhan, Martin Burtscher
LCPC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Branch Strategies to Optimize Decision Trees for Wide-Issue Architectures
Abstract. Branch predictors are associated with critical design issues for nowadays instruction greedy processors. We study two important domains where the optimization of decision...
Patrick Carribault, Christophe Lemuet, Jean-Thomas...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Improving the performance of object-oriented languages with dynamic predication of indirect jumps
Indirect jump instructions are used to implement increasinglycommon programming constructs such as virtual function calls, switch-case statements, jump tables, and interface calls...
José A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, Rish...