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cs.AR2025
Workload Characterization for Branch Predictability
FNU Vikas, Paul Gratz, Daniel Jiménez
Conditional branch prediction predicts the likely direction of a conditional branch instruction to support ILP extraction. Branch prediction is a pattern recognition problem that l…
cs.AR2024
Exposing Shadow Branches
Chrysanthos Pepi, Bhargav Reddy Godala, Krishnam Tibrewala +5
Modern processors implement a decoupled front-end in the form of Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching (FDIP) to avoid front-end stalls. FDIP is driven by the Branch Prediction Un…