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ICCD
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
2003
IEEE
Embedded processors like Intel’s XScale use dynamic branch prediction to improve performance. Due to the presence of context switches, the accuracy of these predictors is reduce...
MAM
2002
13 years 4 months ago
2002
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors. Though many dynamic branch predictors have been proposed to obtain high...
PLDI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Code placement techniques have traditionally improved instruction fetch bandwidth by increasing instruction locality and decreasing the number of taken branches. However, traditio...
IPPS
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
Although high branch prediction accuracy is necessary for high performance, it typically comes at the cost of larger predictor tables and/or more complex prediction algorithms. Un...
ECRTS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Branch prediction mechanisms are becoming commonplace within current generation processors. Dynamic branch predictors, albeit able to predict branches quite accurately in average,...