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ISCA
1995
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Instruction Cache Fetch Policies for Speculative Execution
Current trends in processor design are pointing to deeper and wider pipelines and superscalar architectures. The efficient use of these resources requires speculative execution, ...
Dennis Lee, Jean-Loup Baer, Brad Calder, Dirk Grun...
RTSS
1994
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Bounding Worst-Case Instruction Cache Performance
The use of caches poses a difficult tradeoff for architects of real-time systems. While caches provide significant performance advantages, they have also been viewed as inherently...
Robert D. Arnold, Frank Mueller, David B. Whalley,...
ASAP
2002
IEEE
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14 years 4 months ago
Predictable Instruction Caching for Media Processors
The determinism of instruction cache performance can be considered a major problem in multi-media devices which hope to maximise their quality of service. If instructions are evic...
James Irwin, David May, Henk L. Muller, Dan Page
IEEEPACT
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Call-chain Software Instruction Prefetching in J2EE Server Applications
We present a detailed characterization of instruction cache performance for IBM’s J2EE-enabled web server, WebSphere Application Server (WAS). When running two J2EE benchmarks o...
Priya Nagpurkar, Harold W. Cain, Mauricio J. Serra...