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1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Compiler Optimizations for Improving Data Locality
In the past decade, processor speed has become significantly faster than memory speed. Small, fast cache memories are designed to overcome this discrepancy, but they are only effe...
Steve Carr, Kathryn S. McKinley, Chau-Wen Tseng
CASES
2003
ACM
14 years 20 days ago
Frequent loop detection using efficient non-intrusive on-chip hardware
Dynamic software optimization methods are becoming increasingly popular for improving software performance and power. The first step in dynamic optimization consists of detecting ...
Ann Gordon-Ross, Frank Vahid
CODES
2004
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Optimizing the memory bandwidth with loop fusion
The memory bandwidth largely determines the performance and energy cost of embedded systems. At the compiler level, several techniques improve the memory bandwidth at the scope of...
Paul Marchal, José Ignacio Gómez, Fr...
ICCD
2005
IEEE
114views Hardware» more  ICCD 2005»
14 years 4 months ago
Memory Bank Predictors
Cache memories are commonly implemented through multiple memory banks to improve bandwidth and latency. The early knowledge of the data cache bank that an instruction will access ...
Stefan Bieschewski, Joan-Manuel Parcerisa, Antonio...
DATE
2004
IEEE
177views Hardware» more  DATE 2004»
13 years 11 months ago
Adaptive Prefetching for Multimedia Applications in Embedded Systems
This paper presents a new and simple prefetching mechanism to improve the memory performance of multimedia applications. This method adapts the memory access mechanism to the acce...
Hassan Sbeyti, Smaïl Niar, Lieven Eeckhout