Boosting single-thread performance in multi-core systems through fine-grain multi-threading
Carlos Madriles, Pedro López, Josep Maria Codina, Enric Gibert, Fernando Latorre, A. Martínez, Raúl Martinez, Antonio M. González · 2009
Industry has shifted towards multi-core designs as we have hit the memory and power walls. However, single thread performance remains of paramount importance since some applications have limited thread-level parallelism (TLP), and even a small part with limited TLP impose important constraints to the global performance, as explained by Amdahl's law.