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CGO
2004
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2004
IEEE
Predicated execution enables the removal of branches by converting segments of branching code into sequences of conditional operations. An important side effect of this transforma...
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
Predicated execution can eliminate hard to predict branches and help to enable instruction level parallelism. Many current predication variants exist where the result update is co...
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2003
IEEE
Predicated execution enables the removal of branches wherein segments of branching code are converted into straight-line segments of conditional operations. An important, but gene...
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...
HPCA
2003
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2003
IEEE
To continue to improve processor performance, microarchitects seek to increase the effective instruction level parallelism (ILP) that can be exploited in applications. A fundament...