CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
In profiling, a tradeoff exists between information and overhead. For example, hardware-sampling profilers incur negligible overhead, but the information they collect is consequen...
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
2007
IEEE
Dynamic predication has been proposed to reduce the branch misprediction penalty due to hard-to-predict branch instructions. A recently proposed dynamic predication architecture, ...
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
General-purpose operating systems, such as Linux, are increasingly being used in embedded systems. Computational resources are usually limited, and embedded processors often have ...
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Applying the right compiler optimizations to a particular program can have a significant impact on program performance. Due to the non-linear interaction of compiler optimization...
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Program-specific or function-specific optimization phase sequences are universally accepted to achieve better overall performance than any fixed optimization phase ordering. A ...
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
Managed runtime environments (MREs) employ garbage collection (GC) for automatic memory management. However, GC induces pressure on the virtual memory (VM) manager, since it may t...
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
There has been a flurry of recent work on the design of high performance software and hybrid hardware/software transactional memories (STMs and HyTMs). This paper reexamines the ...
CGO
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2007
IEEE
The increasing complexity of hardware features for recent processors makes high performance code generation very challenging. In particular, several optimization targets have to b...