摘要 |
The inventive mechanism uses a cache table to map branch targets. When a fetch instruction is initiated, the inventive mechanism searches the IP-to-TM cache to determine whether the branch target instruction has been optimized and placed into the trace memory. If there is a match with the IP-to-TM cache, then the code in the trace is executed. This cache is examined in parallel with Instruction Translation Lookup Buffer (ITLB). If not a match is found in the IP-to-TM cache, the original binary in the physical address provided by the ITLB will be executed.
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