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Improving accuracy of self history-based branch predictors using BHT cache

Improving accuracy of self history-based branch predictors using BHT cache

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A new mechanism, the BHT cache, that makes self history-based branch predictors exploit branch correlation information is presented. The simulation results show that self history-based branch predictors incorporating the BHT cache improve prediction accuracy at a very small extra hardware cost.

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