ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,778, issued on April 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Selective use of branch prediction hints" was invented by Jared W. Stark (Portland, Ore.), Ahmad Yasin (Kafr Manda, Israel) and Ajay Amarsingh Singh (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for selective use of branch prediction hints are described. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes an instruction decoder and a branch predictor. The instruction decoder is to decode a branch instruction having a hint. The branch predictor is to provide a prediction and a hint-override indicator. The hint-over...