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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2015
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Vineeth Mekkat, San Jose, CA (US);
Girish Venkatasubramanian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Howard H. Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes an instruction profiler to identify a predicated block within instructions to be executed by a hardware processor. The example apparatus includes a performance monitor to access a mis-prediction statistic based on an instruction address associated with the predicated block. The example apparatus includes a region former to, in response to determining that the mis-prediction statistic is above a mis-prediction threshold, include the predicated block in a predicated region for optimization.