Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!nosun!lfm.fpssun.fps.com!lfm 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???? -- Larry Meadows @ FPS ...!tektronix!fpssun!lfm ...!omepd!ihf1!fpssun!lfm