MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
The Dynamic Execution Layer Interface (DELI) offers the following unique capability: it provides fine-grain control over the execution of programs, by allowing its clients to obse...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
This paper presents Vacuum Packing, a new approach to profile-based program optimization. Instead of using traditional aggregate or summarized execution profile weights, this ap...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
In a 64-bit processor, many of the data values actually used in computations require much narrower data-widths. In this study, we demonstrate that instruction data-widths exhibit ...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
A value’s degree of use—the number of dynamic uses of that value—provides the most essential information needed to optimize its communication. We present simulation results ...
MICRO
2002
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
2002
IEEE
Data prefetching effectively reduces the negative effects of long load latencies on the performance of modern processors. Hardware prefetchers employ hardware structures to predic...