ISPASS
2006
IEEE
15 years 3 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...
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HPCA
2004
IEEE
15 years 10 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...