Branch pruning in architectures with speculation support
US8813057B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 31, 2007 |
| Grant date | Aug 19, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 16, 2030 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F8/4441
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
According to one example embodiment of the inventive subject matter, the method and apparatus described herein is used to generate an optimized speculative version of a static piece of code. The portion of code is optimized in the sense that the number of instructions executed will be smaller. However, since the applied optimization is speculative, the optimized version can be incorrect and some mechanism to recover from that situation is required. Thus, the quality of the produced code will be measured by taking into account both the final length of the code as well as the frequency of misspeculation.
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