Tracking mechanism coupled to retirement in reorder buffer for indicating sharing logical registers of physical register in record indexed by logical register
US8914617B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Dec 24, 2010 |
| Grant date | Dec 16, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Apr 19, 2033 |
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- Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
- CPC primaryY02D10/00
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods and apparatus relating to a hardware move elimination and/or next page prefetching are described. In some embodiments, a logic may provide hardware move eliminations based on stored data. In an embodiment, a next page prefetcher is disclosed. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
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