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A case for a software-managed reconfigurable branch predictor

Al-Otoom et al., 2012

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9564208770934011537
Author
Al-Otoom M
Sheikh R
Rotenberg E
Publication year
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5th Workshop on Architectural and Microarchitectural Support for Binary Translation

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Workloads present diverse performance challenges. Consequently, many proposed microarchitecture techniques apply to only a subset of applications. This limits their appeal, as the added resources tend to be unused by the remaining applications. Designing …
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