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MICRO
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
Predicated execution has been used to reduce the number of branch mispredictions by eliminating hard-to-predict branches. However, the additional instruction overhead and addition...
MICRO
2006
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
2006
IEEE
Wish branches, a new class of control-flow instructions, allow the hardware to dynamically decide whether or not to use predicated execution for a dynamic branch instruction. The ...
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...
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...