PLDI
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
1998
ACM
The conditional branch has long been considered an expensive operation. The relative cost of conditional branches has increased as recently designed machines are now relying on de...
IEEEPACT
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
In this paper, we study the effects of manipulating the architected direction of conditional branches. Through the use of statistical sampling, we find that about 40% of all dyna...
DATE
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
2003
IEEE
We present two novel strategies to increase the scope for application of speculative code motions: (1) Adding scheduling steps dynamically during scheduling to conditional branche...
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...
ISCAS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
— Architectures based on Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors are an optimal choice in the attempt to obtain high performance levels in mobile devices. The effectiveness ...
DAC
2000
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
2000
ACM
This paper presents a novel compiler for Esterel, a concurrent synchronous imperative language. It generates fast, small object code by compiling away concurrency, producing a sin...