Tournament (hybrid) branch predictor

Tag: tournament-predictor

Aliases: hybrid predictor, combining predictor, meta-predictor

A branch direction predictor that runs two component predictors in parallel (typically a simple bimodal and a correlated/gshare) and uses a meta-predictor table to choose between them per branch. McFarling's combining predictor and the Alpha 21264 are canonical examples.

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