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MICRO
1995
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1995
IEEE
Accurate instruction fetch and branch prediction is increasingly important on today’s wide-issue architectures. Fetch prediction is the process of determining the next instructi...
CDES
2006
13 years 6 months ago
2006
Memory accesses have always been a speed-limiting factor, and memory bandwidth has always been an intensively contended scarce resource. Nevertheless, with recent pervasive emergen...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Indirect branches have become increasingly common in modular programs written in modern object-oriented languages and virtualmachine based runtime systems. Unfortunately, the pred...
PLDI
2003
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2003
ACM
Interpreters designed for efficiency execute a huge number of indirect branches and can spend more than half of the execution time in indirect branch mispredictions. Branch target...
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
This paper describes the design of a dynamic branchpredictorfor a VLIW processor. The developed branch predictor predicts the direction of a branch, i.e., taken or not taken, and ...