Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures

The first reference dedicated to the dynamic subject of speculative execution, this book 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 text 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, and explores multithreaded approaches.
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