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Latency tolerant branch predictors

Santana et al., 2003

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11284262451982427825
Author
Santana O
Ramirez A
Valero M
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Innovative Architecture for Future Generation High-Performance Processors and Systems, 2003

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The access latency of branch predictors is a well known problem of fetch engine design. Prediction overriding techniques are commonly accepted to overcome this problem. However, prediction overriding requires a complex recovery mechanism to discard the …
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