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POPL
1994
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Reducing Indirect Function call Overhead in C++ Programs
Modern computer architectures increasingly depend on mechanisms that estimate future control flow decisions to increase performance. Mechanisms such as speculative execution and p...
Brad Calder, Dirk Grunwald
PPSC
1997
13 years 8 months ago
Improving Memory-System Performance of Sparse Matrix-Vector Multiplication
Sparse matrix-vector multiplication is an important kernel that often runs inefficiently on superscalar RISC processors. This paper describes techniques that increase instruction-...
Sivan Toledo
ICS
2000
Tsinghua U.
13 years 11 months ago
Push vs. pull: data movement for linked data structures
As the performance gap between the CPU and main memory continues to grow, techniques to hide memory latency are essential to deliver a high performance computer system. Prefetchin...
Chia-Lin Yang, Alvin R. Lebeck
ICPP
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
COBRA: An Adaptive Runtime Binary Optimization Framework for Multithreaded Applications
This paper presents COBRA (Continuous Binary ReAdaptation), a runtime binary optimization framework, for multithreaded applications. It is currently implemented on Itanium 2 based...
Jinpyo Kim, Wei-Chung Hsu, Pen-Chung Yew
MICRO
2003
IEEE
152views Hardware» more  MICRO 2003»
14 years 22 days ago
A Systematic Methodology to Compute the Architectural Vulnerability Factors for a High-Performance Microprocessor
Single-event upsets from particle strikes have become a key challenge in microprocessor design. Techniques to deal with these transient faults exist, but come at a cost. Designers...
Shubhendu S. Mukherjee, Christopher T. Weaver, Joe...