MICRO
2006
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
2006
IEEE
Wish branches, a new class of control-flow instructions, allow the hardware to dynamically decide whether or not to use predicated execution for a dynamic branch instruction. The ...
IEEEPACT
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 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...