A Limitation Study into Access Decoupling

This paper presents a study into the theoretical limits of a latency hiding technique called access decoupling. Access decoupling is effective at hiding memory latency for low ILP and conservative dependency analysis [9,12,13]. We assess if this result still applies for maximum ILP and perfect dependency analysis.

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