Most programs are repetitive, meaning that some parts of a program are executed more than once. As a result, a number of phases can be extracted in which each phase exhibits simila...
Frederik Vandeputte, Lieven Eeckhout, Koen De Boss...
Previous research has shown that the SPEC benchmarks achieve low miss ratios in relatively small instruction caches. This paper presents evidence that current software-development...
Richard Uhlig, David Nagle, Trevor N. Mudge, Stuar...
The increasing use of microprocessor cores in embedded systems as well as mobile and portable devices creates an opportunity for customizing the cache subsystem for improved perfo...
The importance of the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) on system performance is well known. There have been numerous prior efforts addressing TLB design issues for cutting down ...
Modern memory systems play a critical role in the performance of applications, but a detailed understanding of the application behavior in the memory system is not trivial to atta...
Qin Zhao, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman P. Amarasinghe, ...