Control flow checking (CFC) is a well known concurrent checking technique for ensuring that a program’s instruction execution sequence follows permissible paths. Almost all CFC...
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Conditional branch induced control hazards cause significant performance loss in modern out-of-order superscalar processors. Dynamic branch prediction techniques help alleviate th...