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Parallelism in the front-end

Oberoi et al., 2003

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8939437770744614683
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Oberoi P
Sohi G
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Proceedings of the 30th annual international symposium on Computer architecture

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As processor back-ends get more aggressive, front-ends will have to scale as well. Although the back-ends of superscalar processors have continued to become more parallel, the front- ends remain sequential. This paper describes techniques for fetching and renaming multiple …
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