Patent ID: 11928471
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to perform processes comprising:
operating an index pipeline to generate indices in an index buffer in which the indices are used for reading out a memory device, the indices to the index buffer being generated using an accelerator, wherein writing to the accelerator is based, at least in part, on whether a target address for a branch taken is intraline;
populating a prediction cache with metadata of instructions from the memory device; and
operating a prediction pipeline to generate a prediction using the metadata of the instructions from the prediction cache, the populating of the prediction cache with the metadata of the instructions being performed asynchronously to the operating of the prediction pipeline.