Register packing: Exploiting narrow-width operands for reducing register file pressure

Proceedings of the Annual International Symposium on Microarchitecture, MICRO

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 304-315

  Ergin, Oguz ^a   Balkan, Deniz ^b   Ghose, Kanad ^b   Ponomarev, Dmitry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FILE PRESSURE; FULL-WIDTH REGISTER; INSTRUCTION WINDOWS; REGISTER ALLOCATION;

BENCHMARKING; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SCIENCE; CONSTRAINT THEORY;

STORAGE ALLOCATION (COMPUTER);

EID: 21644435605     PISSN: 10724451     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MICRO.2004.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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