Rehashable btb: An adaptive branch target buffer to improve the target predictability of java code

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2552, Issue , 2002, Pages 597-608

  Li, Tao ^a   Bhargava, Ravi ^a   John, Lizy Kurian ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER STORAGE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; FORECASTING; GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTERS; JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS;

BRANCH TARGET BUFFERS; DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS; GENERAL PURPOSE PROCESSORS; JAVA RUNTIME SYSTEMS; JUST-IN-TIME COMPILATION; MICRO-ARCHITECTURE DESIGN; PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES; PREDICTION PERFORMANCE;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84945250107     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-36265-7_56     Document Type: Conference Paper

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