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ISCA
1995
IEEE
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13 years 8 months ago
A Comparison of Full and Partial Predicated Execution Support for ILP Processors
One can e ectively utilize predicated execution to improve branch handling in instruction-level parallel processors. Although the potential bene ts of predicated execution are hig...
Scott A. Mahlke, Richard E. Hank, James E. McCormi...
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...
ESTIMEDIA
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Leveraging Predicated Execution for Multimedia Processing
—Modern compression standards such as H.264, DivX, or VC-1 provide astonishing quality at the costs of steadily increasing processing requirements. Therefore, efficient solution...
Dietmar Ebner, Florian Brandner, Andreas Krall
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Dynamic Data Dependence Tracking and its Application to Branch Prediction
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...
Lei Chen, Steve Dropsho, David H. Albonesi
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