Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures

David Kaeli (Curatore)

Pen-Chung Yew (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Inc, 2005

Until now, there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative execution, a topic that is crucial to the development of high performance computer architectures. Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures describes many recent advances in speculative execution techniques. It covers cutting-edge research projects, as well as numerous commercial implementations that demonstrate the value of this latency-hiding technique. The book begins with a review of control speculation techniques that use instruction cache prefetching, branch prediction and predication, and multi-path execution. It then examines dataflow speculation techniques including data cache prefetching, address value and data value speculation, pre-computation, and coherence speculation. This textbook also explores multithreaded approaches, emphasizing profile-guided speculation, speculative microarchitectures, and compiler techniques.

• Curatore: David Kaeli, Pen-Chung Yew
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Collana: Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer and Information Science Series
• Anno: 2005
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 456 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 771 gr.
• EAN: 9781584884477

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