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CS252: Reading Assignment #8
Due Wednesday, October 11th
For Wednesday, read the following four papers, and turn in three paragraphs (as described below):
  1. Chih-Chieh Lee, I-Cheng Chen, and Trevor Mudge, The Bi-Mode Branch Predictor, Proceedings of International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO-30), 1997
  2. George Z. Chrysos and Joel S. Emer, Memory Dependence Prediction using Store Sets, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1998
  3.  Mikko H. Lipasti, Christopher B. Wilkerson and John Paul Shen, Value locality and load value prediction, Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systemns (ASPLOS-VII), 1996
  4. Avinash Sodani and Gurindar S. Sohi, Dynamic Instruction Reuse, Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), 1997
Turn in three paragraphs, one for paper #1, one for paper #2, and one comparing ideas in papers #3 and #4.

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