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MICRO
1994
IEEE
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13 years 10 months ago
Characterizing the impact of predicated execution on branch prediction
Branch instructions are recognized as a major impediment to exploiting instruction level parallelism. Even with sophisticated branch prediction techniques, many frequently execute...
Scott A. Mahlke, Richard E. Hank, Roger A. Bringma...
MICRO
2000
IEEE
133views Hardware» more  MICRO 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
Compiler controlled value prediction using branch predictor based confidence
Value prediction breaks data dependencies in a program thereby creating instruction level parallelism that can increase program performance. Hardware based value prediction techni...
Eric Larson, Todd M. Austin
HPCA
1997
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Architectural Support for Compiler-Synthesized Dynamic Branch Prediction Strategies: Rationale and Initial Results
This paper introduces a new architectural approach that supports compiler-synthesized dynamic branch predication. In compiler-synthesized dynamic branch prediction, the compiler g...
David I. August, Daniel A. Connors, John C. Gyllen...
ICCD
2001
IEEE
140views Hardware» more  ICCD 2001»
14 years 3 months ago
Cost-effective Hardware Acceleration of Multimedia Applications
General-purpose microprocessors augmented with SIMD execution units enhance multimedia applications by exploiting data level parallelism. However, supporting/overhead related inst...
Deependra Talla, Lizy Kurian John
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Phi-Predication for Light-Weight If-Conversion
Predicated execution can eliminate hard to predict branches and help to enable instruction level parallelism. Many current predication variants exist where the result update is co...
Weihaw Chuang, Brad Calder, Jeanne Ferrante