77
Voted
ISPASS
2006
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
2006
IEEE
Despite years of study, branch mispredictions remain as a significant performance impediment in pipelined superscalar processors. In general, the branch misprediction penalty can...
63
Voted
HPCA
2004
IEEE
15 years 9 months ago
2004
IEEE
Branch misprediction penalty consists of two components: the time wasted on mis-speculative execution until the mispredicted branch is resolved and the time to restart the pipelin...