Branch prediction techniques (control prediction)

• Static [Ball and Larus, 1993, Fisher and Freudenberger, 1992, Grunwald et al., 1995, Patterson, 1995, Wu and Larus, 1994].
• Dynamic [Lee and Smith, 1984, Gloy et al., 1996, Mahlke and Natarajan, 1996, Yeh and Patt, 1991, Yeh and Patt, 1992, Yeh and Patt, 1993].
• Hybrid [McFarling, 1993, Pan et al., 1992, Chang et al., 1995, Lee et al., 1997a].
• Path profiling and prediction [Seznec et al., 1996, Ball and Larus, 1996, Nair, 1995, Jacobson et al., 1997, Chang et al., 1997].
• Comparing approaches [McFarling and Hennessy, 1986, Young et al., 1995].
• Designing predictors [Emer and Gloy, 1997].
• Comparing branch prediction with data compression [Chen et al., 1996].

See also [Hennessy and Patterson, 1996], section 4.3.