MICRO
1994
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
1994
IEEE
Branch instructions are recognized as a major impediment to exploiting instruction level parallelism. Even with sophisticated branch prediction techniques, many frequently execute...
PLDI
2005
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2005
ACM
Code placement techniques have traditionally improved instruction fetch bandwidth by increasing instruction locality and decreasing the number of taken branches. However, traditio...
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...