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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2003
Hong Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
John Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Perry Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Marsha Eng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gerolf F. Hoflehner, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dan Lavery, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wei LI, Redwood City, CA (US);
Alejandro Ramirez, Barcelona, ES;
Ed Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Hong Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
John Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Perry Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Marsha Eng, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Gerolf F. Hoflehner, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Dan Lavery, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wei Li, Redwood City, CA (US);
Alejandro Ramirez, Barcelona, ES;
Ed Grochowski, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, the invention provides a method for examining information about branch instructions. A method, comprising: examining information about branch instructions that reach a write-back stage of processing within a processor, defining a plurality of streams based on the examining, wherein each stream comprises a sequence of basic blocks in which only a last block in the sequence ends in a branch instruction, the execution of which causes program flow to branch, the remaining basic blocks in the stream each ending in a branch instruction, the execution of which does not cause program flow to branch.