Control-flow speculation through value prediction

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 50, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 1362-1376

  González, José ^a,b   González, Antonio ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Branch prediction; Hybrid predictor; Path based selector; Superscalar processors; Value prediction

Indexed keywords

BRANCH PREDICTION; CONTROL-FLOW SPECULATION; PATH-BASED SELECTOR; SUPERSCALAR PROCESSORS; VALUE PREDICTION;

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MICROCOMPUTERS; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; PROGRAM COMPILERS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0035693873     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2001.970574     Document Type: Article

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