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ASPLOS
2004
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2004
ACM
This paper introduces a compiler-orchestrated prefetching system as a unified framework geared toward ameliorating the gap between processing speeds and memory access latencies. ...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
A path confidence estimate indicates the likelihood that the processor is currently fetching correct path instructions. Accurate path confidence prediction is critical for applica...
ISCA
1998
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1998
IEEE
Modern processors improve instruction level parallelism by speculation. The outcome of data and control decisions is predicted, and the operations are speculatively executed and o...
HPCA
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2008
IEEE
Fetch gating mechanisms have been proposed to gate the processor pipeline to reduce the wasted energy consumption due to wrongpath (i.e. mis-speculated) instructions. These scheme...
VLDB
1999
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1999
ACM
Recent high-performance processors employ sophisticated techniques to overlap and simultaneously execute multiple computation and memory operations. Intuitively, these techniques ...