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HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 4 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...
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1998
IEEE
Conventional speculative architectures use branch prediction to evaluate the most likely execution path during program execution. However, certain branches are difficult to predic...
ESTIMEDIA
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2007
Springer
—Modern compression standards such as H.264, DivX, or VC-1 provide astonishing quality at the costs of steadily increasing processing requirements. Therefore, efficient solution...
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1997
IEEE
This paper introduces a new architectural approach that supports compiler-synthesized dynamic branch predication. In compiler-synthesized dynamic branch prediction, the compiler g...
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2000
IEEE
Branch prediction accuracy is a very important factor for superscalarprocessor performance. The ability topredict the outcome of a branch allows the processor to effectively use a...