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PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 29 days ago
Pin: building customized program analysis tools with dynamic instrumentation
Robust and powerful software instrumentation tools are essential for program analysis tasks such as profiling, performance evaluation, and bug detection. To meet this need, we ha...
Chi-Keung Luk, Robert S. Cohn, Robert Muth, Harish...
POPL
2006
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A hierarchical model of data locality
In POPL 2002, Petrank and Rawitz showed a universal result-finding optimal data placement is not only NP-hard but also impossible to approximate within a constant factor if P = NP...
Chengliang Zhang, Chen Ding, Mitsunori Ogihara, Yu...
ICSE
2009
IEEE-ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The road not taken: Estimating path execution frequency statically
A variety of compilers, static analyses, and testing frameworks rely heavily on path frequency information. Uses for such information range from optimizing transformations to bug ...
Raymond P. L. Buse, Westley Weimer
IEEEINTERACT
2003
IEEE
14 years 21 days ago
Procedure Cloning and Integration for Converting Parallelism from Coarse to Fine Grain
This paper introduces a method for improving program run-time performance by gathering work in an application and executing it efficiently in an integrated thread. Our methods ext...
Won So, Alexander G. Dean
TJS
2002
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13 years 7 months ago
HPCVIEW: A Tool for Top-down Analysis of Node Performance
Although it is increasingly difficult for large scientific programs to attain a significant fraction of peak performance on systems based on microprocessors with substantial instr...
John M. Mellor-Crummey, Robert J. Fowler, Gabriel ...