Microarchitecture

• Branch Prediction and Speculative Execution: How Modern CPUs Gamble on the Future · 2021-08-15

  Explore how modern processors predict branch outcomes and execute instructions speculatively, the algorithms behind branch predictors, the performance implications for your code, and the security vulnerabilities like Spectre that emerged from these optimizations.

• Speculative Prefetchers: Designing Memory Systems That Read the Future · 2019-02-14

  A field guide to building and validating speculative memory prefetchers that anticipate demand in modern CPUs and data platforms.