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MICRO
1997
IEEE
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A Framework for Balancing Control Flow and Predication
Predicated execution is a promising architectural feature for exploiting instruction-level parallelism in the presence of control flow. Compiling for predicated execution involve...
David I. August, Wen-mei W. Hwu, Scott A. Mahlke
PLDI
1998
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Improving Performance by Branch Reordering
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...
Minghui Yang, Gang-Ryung Uh, David B. Whalley
PDP
2002
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
The CDAG: A Data Structure for Automatic Parallelization for a Multithreaded Architecture
Despite the explosive new interest in Distributed Computing, bringing software — particularly legacy software — to parallel platforms remains a daunting task. The Self Distrib...
Bernd Klauer, Frank Eschmann, Ronald Moore, Klaus ...
ICTCS
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Typed Assembly Language for Non-interference
Abstract. Non-interference is a desirable property of systems in a multilevel security architecture, stating that confidential information is not disclosed in public output. The c...
Ricardo Medel, Adriana B. Compagnoni, Eduardo Bone...
IEEEPACT
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Extended Whole Program Paths
We describe the design, generation and compression of the extended whole program path (eWPP) representation that not only captures the control flow history of a program execution...
Sriraman Tallam, Rajiv Gupta, Xiangyu Zhang
CODES
2006
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Hardware assisted pre-emptive control flow checking for embedded processors to improve reliability
Reliability in embedded processors can be improved by control flow checking and such checking can be conducted using software or hardware. Proposed software-only approaches suffe...
Roshan G. Ragel, Sri Parameswaran
ESTIMEDIA
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Leveraging Predicated Execution for Multimedia Processing
—Modern compression standards such as H.264, DivX, or VC-1 provide astonishing quality at the costs of steadily increasing processing requirements. Therefore, efficient solution...
Dietmar Ebner, Florian Brandner, Andreas Krall
MICRO
2009
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Control flow obfuscation with information flow tracking
Recent micro-architectural research has proposed various schemes to enhance processors with additional tags to track various properties of a program. Such a technique, which is us...
Haibo Chen, Liwei Yuan, Xi Wu, Binyu Zang, Bo Huan...