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...
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,...
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...
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...