Branch predictors typically use combinations of branch PC bits and branch histories to make predictions. Recent improvements in branch predictors have come from reducing the effec...
The speculative multithreading paradigm (speculative threadlevel parallelism) is based on the concurrent execution of control-speculative threads. The efficiency of microarchitect...
Pedro Marcuello, Jordi Tubella, Antonio Gonz&aacut...
Previous timing analysis methods have assumed that the worst-case instruction execution time necessarily corresponds to the worst-case behavior. We show that this assumption is wr...
The performance of irregular applications on modern computer systems is hurt by the wide gap between CPU and memory speeds because these applications typically underutilize multi-...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, David B. Whalley, Ken Kenn...
The feature interaction problem is prominent in telephone service development. Through a number of case studies, we have discovered that no single semantic framework is suitable f...
J. Paul Gibson, Geoff Hamilton, Dominique Mé...