'Branch penalties' presentation slideshows

Out-of-Order Execution & Register Renaming

Asanovic/Devadas Spring 2002 6.823. Out-of-Order Execution & Register Renaming. Krste Asanovic Laboratory for Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Asanovic/Devadas Spring 2002 6.823. Average Run-Length between Branches. Average dynamic instruction mix from SPEC92:

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Instruction-Level Parallelism Dynamic Branch Prediction

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Branch Prediction

Branch Prediction. Static, Dynamic Branch prediction techniques. Next fetch started. PC. Fetch. I-cache. Fetch Buffer. Decode. Issue Buffer. Execute. Func. Units. Result Buffer. Branch executed. Commit. Arch. State. Control Flow Penalty Why Branch Prediction.

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