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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2020
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Bryan Lloyd, Austin, TX (US);
David A. Hrusecky, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Sundeep Chadha, Austin, TX (US);
Dung Q. Nguyen, Austin, TX (US);
Christian Gerhard Zoellin, Austin, TX (US);
Brian W. Thompto, Austin, TX (US);
Sheldon Bernard Levenstein, Austin, TX (US);
Phillip G. Williams, Cape Coral, FL (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Technology for fusing certain load instructions and compare-immediate instructions in a computer processor having a load-store architecture with respect to transferring data between memory and registers of the computer processor. In some embodiments the load and compare-immediate instructions are consecutive. In some embodiments, the instructions are only merged if: (i) the respective RA and RT fields of the two instructions match; (ii) the immediate field of the compare-immediate instruction has a certain value, or falls within a range of certain values; and/or (iii) the instructions are received in a consecutive manner.