Branch History Table (BHT)
Tag: bht
Aliases: BHT, pattern history table, PHT
A table of saturating counters indexed by branch PC (and optionally history) that predicts the direction of a conditional branch.
Lecture references
- L01 · Intro — p.25
- L10 · Branch Prediction — p.24 , p.29 , p.30 , p.31 , p.34 , p.37 , p.40 , p.49
- L11 · Advanced Branch Prediction — p.11 , p.12 , p.14 , p.16 , p.24
- L12 · Caches — p.9 , p.10