Branching Out: The Return Address Predictor Challenge
Ret-Ret-Jump, unravel the RAS mysteries one instruction at a time!
Embark on a journey deep into the microarchitecture of modern processors as you navigate through increasingly complex microbenchmarks to measure the behavior of the Return Address Stack (RAS). Test the RAS capacity, study the effects of pipeline flushes, and uncover the mysteries behind RAS misalignments and mispredictions. Will you be able to decode the inner workings of branch prediction and overcome the challenges posed by different processor architectures?
