MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 months ago
2002
IEEE
MICRO
2002
IEEE
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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
13 years 10 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...