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1995
IEEE
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Improving CISC instruction decoding performance using a fill unit
Current superscalar processors, both RISC and CISC, require substantial instruction fetch and decode bandwidth to keep multiple functional units utilized. While CISC instructions ...
Mark Smotherman, Manoj Franklin
MICRO
1995
IEEE
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Disjoint eager execution: an optimal form of speculative execution
Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) speedups of an order-of-magnitude or greater may be possible using the techniques described herein. Traditional speculative code execution is t...
Augustus K. Uht, Vijay Sindagi, Kelley Hall
MICRO
1995
IEEE
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Zero-cycle loads: microarchitecture support for reducing load latency
Untolerated load instruction latencies often have a significant impact on overall program performance. As one means of mitigating this effect, we present an aggressive hardware-b...
Todd M. Austin, Gurindar S. Sohi