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CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Profile-assisted Compiler Support for Dynamic Predication in Diverge-Merge Processors
Dynamic predication has been proposed to reduce the branch misprediction penalty due to hard-to-predict branch instructions. A recently proposed dynamic predication architecture, ...
Hyesoon Kim, José A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, Yale...
ISCA
1989
IEEE
120views Hardware» more  ISCA 1989»
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Comparing Software and Hardware Schemes For Reducing the Cost of Branches
Pipelining has become a common technique to increase throughput of the instruction fetch, instruction decode, and instruction execution portions of modern computers. Branch instru...
Wen-mei W. Hwu, Thomas M. Conte, Pohua P. Chang