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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2011
Mark Leather, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Norman Rubin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brian D. Emberling, San Mateo, CA (US);
Michael Mantor, Orlando, FL (US);
Mark Leather, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Norman Rubin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brian D. Emberling, San Mateo, CA (US);
Michael Mantor, Orlando, FL (US);
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer program products for improving divergent conditional branches in code being executed by a processor. For example, in an embodiment, a method comprises detecting a conditional statement of a program being simultaneously executed by a plurality of threads, determining which threads evaluate a condition of the conditional statement as true and which threads evaluate the condition as false, pushing an identifier associated with the larger set of the threads onto a stack, executing code associated with a smaller set of the threads, and executing code associated with the larger set of the threads.