Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781584884477)

Until now, there were few textbooks that focused on the dynamic subject of speculative execution, a topic that is crucial to the development of high performance computer architectures. Speculative Execution in High Performance Computer Architectures 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 book 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. This textbook also explores multithreaded approaches, emphasizing profile-guided speculation, speculative microarchitectures, and compiler techniques.

Author: David Kaeli
ISBN-10: 1584884479
ISBN-13: 9781584884477
Publisher: CRC Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2005
Pages: 456
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.69lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.42w x 1.14d