Wish Branches: Enabling Adaptive and Aggressive Predicated Execution

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January/February 2006 (vol. 26 no. 1) pp. 48-58

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	Hyesoon Kim, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt, Jared Stark, "Wish Branches: Enabling Adaptive and Aggressive Predicated Execution," IEEE Micro, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 48-58, January/February, 2006.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MM.2006.27, author = {Hyesoon Kim and Onur Mutlu and Yale N. Patt and Jared Stark}, title = {Wish Branches: Enabling Adaptive and Aggressive Predicated Execution}, journal ={IEEE Micro}, volume = {26}, number = {1}, issn = {0272-1732}, year = {2006}, pages = {48-58}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2006.27}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Micro TI - Wish Branches: Enabling Adaptive and Aggressive Predicated Execution IS - 1 SN - 0272-1732 SP48 EP58 EPD - 48-58 A1 - Hyesoon Kim, A1 - Onur Mutlu, A1 - Yale N. Patt, A1 - Jared Stark, PY - 2006 KW - Wish branches KW - predicated execution KW - branch prediction KW - wish loops VL - 26 JA - IEEE Micro ER -

Hyesoon Kim, University of Texas at Austin

Onur Mutlu, University of Texas at Austin

Yale N. Patt, University of Texas at Austin

Jared Stark, Intel

The goal of wish branches is to use predicated execution for hard-to-predict dynamic branches, and branch prediction for easy-to-predict dynamic branches, thereby obtaining the best of both worlds. Wish loops, one class of wish branches, use predication to reduce the misprediction penalty for hard-to-predict backward (loop) branches.

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Wish branches, predicated execution, branch prediction, wish loops

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Hyesoon Kim, Onur Mutlu, Yale N. Patt, Jared Stark, "Wish Branches: Enabling Adaptive and Aggressive Predicated Execution," IEEE Micro, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 48-58, Jan./Feb. 2006, doi:10.1109/MM.2006.27

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