A small buffer called a branch-anticipate buffer (BAB) is used to store groups of instructions which are likely to be required from the instruction cache (I-cache) when an instruction prefetch miss occurs. When a prefetch miss occurs, the BAB is checked to see if instructions corresponding...http://www.google.ca/patents/US5794027?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US5794027 - Method and apparatus for managing the execution of instructons with proximate successive branches in a cache-based data processing system 
