We describe twinning and its applications to adapting programs to alternative APIs. Twinning is a simple technique that allows programmers to specify a class of program changes, i...
Usual cache optimisation techniques for high performance computing are difficult to apply in embedded VLIW applications. First, embedded applications are not always well structur...
Samir Ammenouche, Sid Ahmed Ali Touati, William Ja...
Instruction Set Simulators (ISSes) are important tools for cross-platform software development. The simulation speed is a major concern and many approaches have been proposed to i...
Lei Gao, Stefan Kraemer, Rainer Leupers, Gerd Asch...
In profiling, a tradeoff exists between information and overhead. For example, hardware-sampling profilers incur negligible overhead, but the information they collect is consequen...
Tipp Moseley, Alex Shye, Vijay Janapa Reddi, Dirk ...
Correctly predicting the direction that branches will take is increasingly important in today’s wide-issue computer architectures. The name program-based branch prediction is gi...
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald, Donald C. Lindsay, Jam...