Cache Performance of the SPEC92 Benchmark Suite (1993)
| Venue: | IEEE Micro |
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@ARTICLE{Sun93cacheperformance,
author = {Jeffrey Gee Sun and Mark D. Hill and Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos and Alan Jay Smith},
title = {Cache Performance of the SPEC92 Benchmark Suite},
journal = {IEEE Micro},
year = {1993},
volume = {13},
pages = {17--27}
}
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Abstract
The SPEC92 benchmark suite consists of twenty public-domain, non-trivial programs that are widely used to measure the performance of computer systems, particularly those in the Unix workstation market. These benchmarks were expressly chosen to represent real-world applications and were intended to be large enough to stress the computational and memory system resources of current-generation machines. The extent to which the SPECmarks (the figures of merit obtained from running the SPEC benchmarks under certain specified conditions) accurately represents performance with live real workloads is not well established; in particular, there is some question whether the memory referencing behavior (cache performance) is appropriate. In this paper, we present measurements of miss ratios for the entire set of SPEC92 benchmarks for a variety of CPU cache configurations; this study extends earlier work that measured only the performance of the integer SPEC89 benchmarks. We find that instruction ca...
