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Exploring thread-level speculation in software: The effects of memory access tracking granularityPapadimitriou et al., 2001
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- Papadimitriou S
- Mowry T
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Speculative execution is often the only way to overcome dataflow-imposed limitations and exploit parallelism when dependences can be discovered only at run-time. It also facilitates automatic parallelization of programs that exhibit complicated memory access patterns …
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