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IJPP
2008
13 years 6 months ago
2008
Neural-inspired branch predictors achieve very low branch misprediction rates. However, previously proposed implementations have a variety of characteristics that make them challen...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
14 years 18 days ago
2007
IEEE
Indirect branches have become increasingly common in modular programs written in modern object-oriented languages and virtualmachine based runtime systems. Unfortunately, the pred...
IEEEPACT
1998
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
1998
IEEE
Hybrid branch predictors combine the predictions of multiple single-level or two-level branch predictors. The prediction-combining hardware -- the "meta-predictor" -may ...
LCPC
2004
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
2004
Springer
Abstract. Branch predictors are associated with critical design issues for nowadays instruction greedy processors. We study two important domains where the optimization of decision...
MICRO
1999
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
1999
IEEE
This paper studies an interesting yet less explored behavior of memory access instructions, called access region locality. Unlike the traditional temporal and spatial data localit...