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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2004
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2002
John S. Liptay, late of Rhinebeck, NY (US);
Mark A. Check, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Brian R. Prasky, Wappingers Falls, NY (US);
Chung-Lung Kevin Shum, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is disclosed for selecting data in a computer system having a cache memory and a branch history table, where the method includes predicting an address corresponding to the data, selecting data at the predicted address in the cache memory, translating an address corresponding to the data, comparing the translated address with the predicted address, and if they are different, re-selecting data at the translated address in the cache memory and appending the translated address to the branch history table.