Multiple-branch prediction
Tag: multi-branch-prediction
Aliases: multi-branch predictor, wide fetch branch prediction
Hardware that emits predictions for two or more branches per cycle, used by wide-issue cores to keep fetch bandwidth above one taken branch every ~10 instructions. Yeh, Marr & Patt's branch address cache reads multiple PHT rows in parallel and selects between them using freshly-computed predictions.
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