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ACMMSP
2004
ACM
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14 years 29 days ago
Metrics and models for reordering transformations
Irregular applications frequently exhibit poor performance on contemporary computer architectures, in large part because of their inefficient use of the memory hierarchy. Runtime ...
Michelle Mills Strout, Paul D. Hovland
MICRO
2000
IEEE
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13 years 12 months ago
Improving BTB performance in the presence of DLLs
Dynamically Linked Libraries (DLLs) promote software modularity, portability, and flexibility and their use has become widespread. In this paper, we characterize the behavior of f...
Stevan A. Vlaovic, Edward S. Davidson, Gary S. Tys...
MICRO
1998
IEEE
144views Hardware» more  MICRO 1998»
13 years 11 months ago
Analyzing the Working Set Characteristics of Branch Execution
To achieve highly accurate branch prediction, it is necessary not only to allocate more resources to branch prediction hardware but also to improve the understanding of branch exe...
Sangwook P. Kim, Gary S. Tyson
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
LSP Setup Arrival Reordering Approach for MPLS-TE Routing
— In this paper, we evaluate a solution based on the preemption mechanism so as to improve performances of distributed Multi-Protocol Label Switching-Traffic Engineering (MPLS-T...
Imène Chaieb, Jean-Louis Le Roux, Bernard C...