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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2012
Conrado Blasco-allue, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ian D. Kountanis, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Conrado Blasco-Allue, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ian D. Kountanis, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses, and processors for tracking loop candidates in an instruction stream. A load buffer control unit detects a backwards taken branch and starts tracking the loop candidate. The control unit tracks taken branches of the loop candidate, and keeps track of the distance to each taken branch from the start of the loop. If the distance to each taken branch stays the same over multiple iterations of the loop, then the loop is stored in a loop buffer. The loop is then dispatched from the loop buffer, and the front-end of the processor is powered down until the loop terminates.
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