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Graduate Computer Architecture

UC Berkeley CS252

Fall 2006

 


Paper reading 2:

1. Read “Limits of instruction-level parallelism,” by David Wall, Nov 1993

Read pages 1-35 (about ˝ of paper is figures).

  • In your comments, rank in order of importance alias analysis, branch prediction, jump prediction, register renaming, and speculative execution
  • Mention what are limits to this study of limits of ILP