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ASPLOS
1996
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
1996
ACM
Branch prediction is an important mechanism in modern microprocessor design. The focus of research in this area has been on designing new branch prediction schemes. In contrast, v...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2005
IEEE
The continual demand for greater performance and growing concerns about the power consumption in highperformance microprocessors make the branch predictor a critical component of ...
ISCA
1995
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1995
IEEE
Modern high-performance architectures require extremely accurate branch prediction to overcome the performance limitations of conditional branches. We present a framework that cat...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 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...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Value prediction breaks data dependencies in a program thereby creating instruction level parallelism that can increase program performance. Hardware based value prediction techni...