A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies¶
Smith, J. E. (1981). A Study of Branch Prediction Strategies. Proceedings of the 8th Annual Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 135-148.
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- The frequency-skewed input stream is the sequence of conditional branches a program executes; loop back-edges and well-predicted conditionals are overwhelmingly common, mispredicted branches rare.
This sourceFoundational analysis of branch-prediction accuracy on the skewed taken/not-taken distribution of conditional branches, supporting the speculative-execution formal example.
- The frequency-skewed input stream is the sequence of conditional branches a program executes; loop back-edges and well-predicted conditionals are overwhelmingly common, mispredicted branches rare.
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