VPC prediction

• DOI: 10.1145/1250662.1250715
• Publication Date: 2007-09-14T16:07:37Z
• Authors: Hyesoon Kim; José A. Joao; Onur Mutlu; Chang Joo Lee; Yale N. Patt; Robert Cohn
• Keywords: Branch predictor

Indirect branches have become increasingly common in modular programs written modern object-oriented languages and virtual machine based runtime systems. Unfortunately, the prediction accuracy of indirect has not improved as much that conditional branches. Furthermore, previously proposed branch predictors usually require a significant amount extra hardware storage complexity, which makes them less attractive to implement.