Search Results - "Armstrong, D.N."

An analysis of the performance impact of wrong-path memory references on out-of-order and runahead execution processors by Mutlu, O., Kim, H., Armstrong, D.N., Patt, Y.N.

“…High-performance, out-of-order execution processors spend a significant portion of their execution time on the incorrect program path even though they employ…”
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Wrong Path Events: Exploiting Unusual and Illegal Program Behavior for Early Misprediction Detection and Recovery by Armstrong, David N., Kim, Hyesoon, Mutlu, Onur, Patt, Yale N.

“…Control and data speculation are widely used to improve processor performance. Correct speculation can reduce execution time, but incorrect speculation can…”
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Cache filtering techniques to reduce the negative impact of useless speculative memory references on processor performance by Mutlu, O., Kim, H., Armstrong, D.N., Patt, Y.N.

“…High-performance processors employ aggressive speculation and prefetching techniques to increase performance. Speculative memory references caused by these…”
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