Editing Branch predictor (section)

===Alloyed branch prediction===
An alloyed branch predictor<ref>{{cite conference |author-first=K. |author-last=Skadron |author-last2=Martonosi |author-first2=M. |author-last3=Clark |author-first3=D. W. |title=A Taxonomy of Branch Mispredictions, and Alloyed Prediction as a Robust Solution to Wrong-History Mispredictions |url=https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~skadron/Papers/alloy_pact00.pdf |book-title=Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques |pages=199–206 |date=October 2000 |location=Philadelphia |doi=10.1109/PACT.2000.888344}}</ref> combines the local and global prediction principles by [[concatenation|concatenating]] local and global branch histories, possibly with some bits from the [[program counter]] as well. Tests indicate that the [[VIA Nano]] processor may be using this technique.<ref name="Fog_Microarchitecture"/>