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From: lfm@fpssun.fps.com (Larry Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: getting rid of branches
Summary: multiflow
Message-ID: <236@lfm.fpssun.fps.com>
Date: 5 Jul 88 18:01:24 GMT
References: <1941@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <3208@ubc-cs.UUCP> <1986@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <12258@mimsy.UUCP>
Organization: Floating Point Systems
Lines: 27

In article <12258@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> In article <91odrecXKL1010YEOek@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
> chuck@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Charles Simmons) writes:
> >You guys aren't thinking big enough.  How about multiple parallel
> >pipelines to compute all the various instruction threads in parallel
> >and just keep the results of the one that is actually taken?
> 
> Actually, this sort of idea is contained in some research and thesis
> work that is (was?) going on here at Maryland.

Sounds a lot like multiflow to me.

But what do you do about exceptions????











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