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EXPCS
2007
15 years 5 months ago
2007
Context switching imposes a performance penalty on threads in a multitasking environment. The source of this penalty is both direct overhead due to running the context switch code...
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CODES
2004
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
2004
IEEE
There is a growing need for accurate power models at the system level. Memory structures such as caches, Branch Target Buffers (BTBs), and register files occupy significant area i...
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LISA
2007
15 years 4 months ago
2007
An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
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IWMM
2009
Springer
15 years 8 months ago
2009
Springer
Good spatial locality alleviates both the latency and bandwidth problem of memory by boosting the effect of prefetching and improving the utilization of cache. However, convention...
CASES
2001
ACM
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2001
ACM
Intertask/interprocess synchronization overheads may be significant in a multiprocessor-shared memory System-on-a-Chip implementation. These overheads are observed in terms of loc...