US Patent Issued to Arm on Feb. 3 for "Predicting behaviour of control flow instructions using prediction entry types" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,371, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Predicting behaviour of control flow instructions using prediction entry types" was invented by Houdhaifa Bouzguarrou (Austin, Texas) and Alexander Cole Shulyak (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus stores pointer values for pointers which are incremented differentially and has prediction circuitry to maintain prediction entries each identifying a control flow instruction, an associated pointer, and a behaviour record indicating resolved behaviour of the control flow instruction. Resolved behaviour stored in a selected element of the beha...