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Optimizations enabled by a decoupled front-end architecture

Reinman et al., 2001

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12877785147286466753
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Reinman G
Calder B
Austin T
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IEEE Transactions on Computers

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In the pursuit of instruction-level parallelism, significant demands are placed on a processor's instruction delivery mechanism. Delivering the performance necessary to meet future processor execution targets requires that the performance of the instruction delivery …
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