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HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 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...
MICRO
1994
IEEE
13 years 10 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...
MICRO
1994
IEEE
13 years 10 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...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 6 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...
ICS
2009
Tsinghua U.
13 years 3 months ago
2009
Tsinghua U.
Modern processors require highly accurate branch prediction for good performance. As such, a number of branch predictors have been proposed with varying size and complexity. This ...