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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2017
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Kenneth Edvard Ostby, Cambridge, GB;
Arm Limited, Cambridge, GB;
Abstract
In a data processing system, a program to be executed by a programmable processing unit of the data processing system is analyzed to identify a sequence of instructions that would produce the same result for plural execution threads were those plural execution threads each to execute the sequence of instructions using the same input data. Then, when the program is being executed, when an execution thread is to execute the identified sequence of instructions, it is determined whether a result produced by an earlier execution thread executing the sequence of instructions, and that used the same input data, is stored in memory or not. The current thread then either executes the sequence of instructions, or retrieves the stored result produced by the earlier execution of the sequence of instructions and skips execution of the sequence of instructions for which the result is stored, accordingly.