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To experiment with boosting, we built a global instruction scheduler, which is specifically tailored for the non-numerical environment, and a simulator, which determines the cycle-count performance of our globally-scheduled programs. We also analyzed the hardware requirements for boosting in a typical load/store architecture. Through the cycle-count simulations and an understanding of the cycle-time impact of the hardware support for boosting, we found that only a small amount of hardware support for speculative execution is necessary to achieve good performance in a small-issue, superscalar processor."