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CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
METRIC: Tracking Down Inefficiencies in the Memory Hierarchy via Binary Rewriting
In this paper, we present METRIC, an environment for determining memory inefficiencies by examining data traces. METRIC is designed to alter the performance behavior of applicatio...
Jaydeep Marathe, Frank Mueller, Tushar Mohan, Bron...
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Coupling On-Line and Off-Line Profile Information to Improve Program Performance
In this paper, we describe a novel execution environment for Java programs that substantially improves execution performance by incorporating both on-line and off-line profile inf...
Chandra Krintz
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Optimal and Efficient Speculation-Based Partial Redundancy Elimination
Existing profile-guided partial redundancy elimination (PRE) methods use speculation to enable the removal of partial redundancies along more frequently executed paths at the expe...
Qiong Cai, Jingling Xue
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Retargetable and Reconfigurable Software Dynamic Translation
Software dynamic translation (SDT) is a technology that permits the modification of an executing program’s instructions. In recent years, SDT has received increased attention, f...
Kevin Scott, Naveen Kumar, S. Velusamy, Bruce R. C...
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Binary Translation for Accumulator-Oriented Architectures
A dynamic binary translation system for a co-designed virtual machine is described and evaluated. The underlying hardware directly executes an accumulator-oriented instruction set...
Ho-Seop Kim, James E. Smith
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Speculative Register Promotion Using Advanced Load Address Table (ALAT)
The pervasive use of pointers with complicated patterns in C programs often constrains compiler alias analysis to yield conservative register allocation and promotion. Speculative...
Jin Lin, Tong Chen, Wei-Chung Hsu, Pen-Chung Yew
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Jumbo: Run-Time Code Generation for Java and Its Applications
Run-time code generation is a well-known technique for improving the efficiency of programs by exploiting dynamic information. Unfortunately, the difficulty of constructing run-...
Sam Kamin, Lars Clausen, Ava Jarvis
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Hiding Program Slices for Software Security
Given the high cost of producing software, development of technology for prevention of software piracy is important for the software industry. In this paper we present a novel app...
Xiangyu Zhang, Rajiv Gupta
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Adaptive Online Context-Sensitive Inlining
As current trends in software development move toward more complex object-oriented programming, inlining has become a vital optimization that provides substantial performance impr...
Kim M. Hazelwood, David Grove
CGO
2003
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Addressing Mode Selection
Many processor architectures provide a set of addressing modes in their address generation units. For example DSPs (digital signal processors) have powerful addressing modes for e...
Erik Eckstein, Bernhard Scholz