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MAM
2002
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13 years 4 months ago
OPTS: increasing branch prediction accuracy under context switch
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar processors. Though many dynamic branch predictors have been proposed to obtain high...
Moon-Sang Lee, Young-Jae Kang, Joonwon Lee, Seung ...
HPCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Improving Branch Prediction and Predicated Execution in Out-of-Order Processors
If-conversion is a compiler technique that reduces the misprediction penalties caused by hard-to-predict branches, transforming control dependencies into data dependencies. Althou...
Eduardo Quiñones, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, An...
CSIE
2009
IEEE
14 years 23 hour ago
A Computation Saving Partial-Sum-Global-Update Scheme for Perceptron Branch Predictor
With the pipeline deepen and issue width widen, the accuracy of branch predictor becomes more and more important to the performance of a microprocessor. State-of-theart researches...
Liqiang He
RTAS
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Analysis of the Execution Time Unpredictability caused by Dynamic Branch Prediction
This paper investigates how dynamic branch prediction in a microprocessor affects the predictability of execution time for software running on that processor. By means of experim...
Jakob Engblom
MICRO
1994
IEEE
123views Hardware» more  MICRO 1994»
13 years 9 months ago
The effects of predicated execution on branch prediction
High performance architectures have always had to deal with the performance-limiting impact of branch operations. Microprocessor designs are going to have to deal with this proble...
Gary S. Tyson