To achieve highly accurate branch prediction, it is necessary not only to allocate more resources to branch prediction hardware but also to improve the understand-ing of branch execution characteristics. In this paper, we present a new profile-based conditional branch analysis technique called branch working set analysis to provide additional information about control flow behavior of general purpose applications. This analysis evaluates the dynamic behavior of branch execution by partition-ing either individual branches or pre-classified branch groups into sets based on temporal locality and ordering information. We refer to these sets as the working sets of branches. To demonstrate the usefulness of this form of analy-sis, we examine the ...
Modern high-performance architectures require extremely accurate branch prediction to overcome the p...
Branch prediction has been playing an increasingly important role in improving the performance and e...
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar proc...
One of the key factors determining computer performance is the degree to which the implementation c...
To attain peak efficiency, high performance processors must anticipate changes in the flow of contro...
Accurate branch prediction can be seen as a mechanism for enabling design decisions. When short pipe...
Conditional branches frequently exhibit similar behavior (bias, time-varying behavior,...), a proper...
There is wide agreement that one of the most important impediments to the performance of current and...
textPerformance of modern pipelined processor depends on steady flow of useful instructions for proc...
To attain peak efficiency, high performance processors must anticipate changes in the flow of contro...
Pipeline stalls due to branches represent one of the most significant impediments to realizing the p...
There is wide agreement that one of the most important impediments to the performance of current and...
[[abstract]]Branch instructions form a significant fraction of executed instructions in a computer p...
Abstract — Branch prediction has been playing an increas-ingly important role in improving the perfo...
The importance of accurate branch prediction to future processors has been widely recognized. The co...
Modern high-performance architectures require extremely accurate branch prediction to overcome the p...
Branch prediction has been playing an increasingly important role in improving the performance and e...
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar proc...
One of the key factors determining computer performance is the degree to which the implementation c...
To attain peak efficiency, high performance processors must anticipate changes in the flow of contro...
Accurate branch prediction can be seen as a mechanism for enabling design decisions. When short pipe...
Conditional branches frequently exhibit similar behavior (bias, time-varying behavior,...), a proper...
There is wide agreement that one of the most important impediments to the performance of current and...
textPerformance of modern pipelined processor depends on steady flow of useful instructions for proc...
To attain peak efficiency, high performance processors must anticipate changes in the flow of contro...
Pipeline stalls due to branches represent one of the most significant impediments to realizing the p...
There is wide agreement that one of the most important impediments to the performance of current and...
[[abstract]]Branch instructions form a significant fraction of executed instructions in a computer p...
Abstract — Branch prediction has been playing an increas-ingly important role in improving the perfo...
The importance of accurate branch prediction to future processors has been widely recognized. The co...
Modern high-performance architectures require extremely accurate branch prediction to overcome the p...
Branch prediction has been playing an increasingly important role in improving the performance and e...
Accurate branch prediction is essential for obtaining high performance in pipelined superscalar proc...