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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 23, 2018
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2014
Mill Computing, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Roger Rawson Godard, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arthur David Kahlich, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mill Computing, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer processor is provided that executes sequences of instructions stored in memory. The sequences of instructions are organized as one or more instruction blocks each having an entry point and at least one exit point offset from the entry point. An apparatus for predicting control flow through sequences of instructions includes a table storing a plurality of entries each associated with an instruction block or part thereof. At least one entry of the table corresponding to a given instruction block or part thereof includes a predictor corresponding to a predicted execution path that exits the given Instruction block or part thereof. The table is queried in order to generate a chain of predictors corresponding to a sequence of instruction blocks or parts thereof that is predicted to be executed by the computer processor.