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ARCS
2008
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Springer
Predictors essentially predicts the most recent events based on the record of past events, history. It is obvious that prediction performance largely relies on regularity
EXPCS
2007
13 years 8 months ago
2007
Predictors are inherent components of state-of-the-art microprocessors. Branch predictors are discussed actively from diverse perspectives. Performance of a branch predictor large...
ISCA
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Improved branch prediction accuracy is essential to sustaining instruction throughput with today’s deep pipelines. We introduce piecewise linear branch prediction, an idealized ...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
1999
IEEE
Branch predictors typically use combinations of branch PC bits and branch histories to make predictions. Recent improvements in branch predictors have come from reducing the effec...
ISHPC
2003
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2003
Springer
Abstract. Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) tolerates latency by executing instructions from multiple threads. If a thread is stalled, resources can be used by other threads. Howev...