This paper examines how the performance of a shared-memory multiprocessor can be improved by including hardware support for block transfers. A system similar to the Hector multipr...
High-performance processors employ aggressive speculation and prefetching techniques to increase performance. Speculative memory references caused by these techniques sometimes br...
Onur Mutlu, Hyesoon Kim, David N. Armstrong, Yale ...
The running time of many applications is dominated by the cost of memory operations. To optimize such applications for a given platform, it is necessary to have a detailed knowled...
Data prefetching technique is widely used to bridge the growing performance gap between processor and memory. Numerous prefetching techniques have been proposed to exploit data pa...
Techniques for analyzing and improving memory referencing behavior continue to be important for achieving good overall program performance due to the ever-increasing performance g...