Fu et al., 1998 - Google Patents
Value speculation scheduling for high performance processorsFu et al., 1998
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- Fu C
- Jennings M
- Larin S
- Conte T
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- ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
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Recent research in value prediction shows a surprising amount of predictability for the values produced by register-writing instructions. Several hardware based value predictor designs have been proposed to exploit this predictability by eliminating flow dependencies …
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