SHIFT-FOLDING FOR EFFICIENT LOAD COALESCING IN A BINARY TRANSLATION BASED PROCESSOR

A processor includes an instruction fetch circuit to retrieve instructions from memory, and a decode unit circuit to decode retrieved instructions. The decode unit circuit identifies a shift instruction, accumulates a shift folded immediate value to track a number of bit positions shifted for a sour...

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Hauptverfasser: MEKKAT, Vineeth, CHEN, Xi, SHEVGOOR, Manjunath
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Zusammenfassung:A processor includes an instruction fetch circuit to retrieve instructions from memory, and a decode unit circuit to decode retrieved instructions. The decode unit circuit identifies a shift instruction, accumulates a shift folded immediate value to track a number of bit positions shifted for a source register, and prevents the shift instruction from allocation to an execution unit of the processor.