This paper examines the feasibility of performing architectural studies with trace sampling for a suite of desktop application traces on Windows NT. This paper makes three contrib...
—Software instrumentation is a powerful and flexible technique for analyzing the dynamic behavior of programs. By inserting extra code in an application, it is possible to study...
Alex Skaletsky, Tevi Devor, Nadav Chachmon, Robert...
Important insights into program operation can be gained by observing dynamic execution behavior. Unfortunately, many high-performance machines provide execution profile summaries ...
A quantitative analysis of program execution is essential to the computer architecture design process. With the current trend in architecture of enhancing the performance of unipr...