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ICPP
1999
IEEE
13 years 12 months ago
Improving Performance of Load-Store Sequences for Transaction Processing Workloads on Multiprocessors
On-line transaction processing exhibits poor memory behavior in high-end multiprocessor servers because of complex sharing patterns and substantial interaction between the databas...
Jim Nilsson, Fredrik Dahlgren
ECOOP
1995
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Do Object-Oriented Languages Need Special Hardware Support?
Previous studies have shown that object-oriented programs have different execution characteristics than procedural programs, and that special object-oriented hardware can improve p...
Urs Hölzle, David Ungar
HPCA
2006
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
A decoupled KILO-instruction processor
Building processors with large instruction windows has been proposed as a mechanism for overcoming the memory wall, but finding a feasible and implementable design has been an elu...
Miquel Pericàs, Adrián Cristal, Rube...
ISCA
1999
IEEE
124views Hardware» more  ISCA 1999»
13 years 12 months ago
The Block-Based Trace Cache
The trace cache is a recently proposed solution to achieving high instruction fetch bandwidth by buffering and reusing dynamic instruction traces. This work presents a new block-b...
Bryan Black, Bohuslav Rychlik, John Paul Shen
ISCA
2002
IEEE
112views Hardware» more  ISCA 2002»
14 years 16 days ago
Drowsy Caches: Simple Techniques for Reducing Leakage Power
On-chip caches represent a sizable fraction of the total power consumption of microprocessors. Although large caches can significantly improve performance, they have the potential...
Krisztián Flautner, Nam Sung Kim, Steven M....