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ISCA
2000
IEEE
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13 years 9 months ago
Performance analysis of the Alpha 21264-based Compaq ES40 system
This paper evaluates performance characteristics of the Compaq ES40 shared memory multiprocessor. The ES40 system contains up to four Alpha 21264 CPU’s together with a high-perf...
Zarka Cvetanovic, Richard E. Kessler
PVLDB
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Identifying robust plans through plan diagram reduction
Estimates of predicate selectivities by database query optimizers often differ significantly from those actually encountered during query execution, leading to poor plan choices a...
Harish D., Pooja N. Darera, Jayant R. Haritsa
ISCA
2007
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Ginger: control independence using tag rewriting
The negative performance impact of branch mis-predictions can be reduced by exploiting control independence (CI). When a branch mis-predicts, the wrong-path instructions up to the...
Andrew D. Hilton, Amir Roth
ISPASS
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Accurately approximating superscalar processor performance from traces
Trace-driven simulation of superscalar processors is particularly complicated. The dynamic nature of superscalar processors combined with the static nature of traces can lead to l...
Kiyeon Lee, Shayne Evans, Sangyeun Cho
ICS
1999
Tsinghua U.
13 years 9 months ago
Software trace cache
—This paper explores the use of compiler optimizations which optimize the layout of instructions in memory. The target is to enable the code to make better use of the underlying ...
Alex Ramírez, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey, Carl...