Branch effects are the biggest obstacle to gaining significant speedups when running general-purpose code on instruction-level parallel machines. This survey compares current branch effect reduction techniques, offering hope for greater gains
Modern CPUs rely on expensive branch predictors to speed up execution. Predictions nevertheless impl...
In a highly parallel computer system, performance losses due to conditional branch instructions can ...
Modern single-CPU microprocessors exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP) by deriving their perf...
Branch effects are the biggest obstacle to gaining significant speedups when running general-purpose...
T here is an insatiable demand for computers ofever-increasing performance. Old applicationsare appl...
Though current general-purpose processors have several small CPU cores as opposed to a single more c...
The presence of branch instructions in an instruction stream may adversely affect the performance of...
Accurate static branch prediction is the key to many techniques for exposing, enhancing, and exploit...
[[abstract]]Branch instructions form a significant fraction of executed instructions in a computer p...
Pipeline stalls due to branches represent one of the most significant impediments to realizing the p...
Branch prediction accuracy is a very important factor for superscalar processor performance. The abi...
High performance architectures have always had to deal with the performance-limiting impact of branc...
Pipelined microprocessors allow the simultaneous execution of several machine instructions at a time...
textPerformance of modern pipelined processor depends on steady flow of useful instructions for proc...
A mechanism to reduce the cost of branches in pipelined processors is described and evaluated. It is...
Modern CPUs rely on expensive branch predictors to speed up execution. Predictions nevertheless impl...
In a highly parallel computer system, performance losses due to conditional branch instructions can ...
Modern single-CPU microprocessors exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP) by deriving their perf...
Branch effects are the biggest obstacle to gaining significant speedups when running general-purpose...
T here is an insatiable demand for computers ofever-increasing performance. Old applicationsare appl...
Though current general-purpose processors have several small CPU cores as opposed to a single more c...
The presence of branch instructions in an instruction stream may adversely affect the performance of...
Accurate static branch prediction is the key to many techniques for exposing, enhancing, and exploit...
[[abstract]]Branch instructions form a significant fraction of executed instructions in a computer p...
Pipeline stalls due to branches represent one of the most significant impediments to realizing the p...
Branch prediction accuracy is a very important factor for superscalar processor performance. The abi...
High performance architectures have always had to deal with the performance-limiting impact of branc...
Pipelined microprocessors allow the simultaneous execution of several machine instructions at a time...
textPerformance of modern pipelined processor depends on steady flow of useful instructions for proc...
A mechanism to reduce the cost of branches in pipelined processors is described and evaluated. It is...
Modern CPUs rely on expensive branch predictors to speed up execution. Predictions nevertheless impl...
In a highly parallel computer system, performance losses due to conditional branch instructions can ...
Modern single-CPU microprocessors exploit instruction-level parallelism (ILP) by deriving their perf...
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