ISPASS
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2006
IEEE
Despite years of study, branch mispredictions remain as a significant performance impediment in pipelined superscalar processors. In general, the branch misprediction penalty can...
HPCA
2004
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
2004
IEEE
Branch misprediction penalty consists of two components: the time wasted on mis-speculative execution until the mispredicted branch is resolved and the time to restart the pipelin...