Procedure Merging with Instruction Caches

Procedure Merging with Instruction Caches (1991)

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by Scott McFarling

Venue:	Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '91 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
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TITLE	Procedure Merging with Instruction Caches	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Scott McFarling	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR AFFIL	; d i g i t a l; The Western Research Laboratory (WRL) is a computer systems research group that	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR ADDR	; Western Research Laboratory 100 Hamilton Avenue Palo Alto, California 94301 USA; Massachusetts (CRL).	user correction - Legacy Corrections
ABSTRACT	This paper describes a method of determining which procedures to merge for machines with instruction caches. The method uses profile information, the structure of the program, the cache size, and the cache miss penalty to guide the choice. Optimization for the cache is assumed to follow procedure merging. The method weighs the benefit of removing calls with the increase in the instruction cache miss rate. Better performance is achieved than previous schemes that do not consider the cache. Merging always results in a savings, unlike simpler schemes that can make programs slower once cache effects are considered. The new method also has better performance even when parameters to simpler algorithms are varied to get the best performance. This report is a preprint of a paper that will be presented at the ACM SIGPLAN '91 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 26-28, 1991. Copyright 1990 ACM. i 1 Introduction This paper presents a ...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1991	INFERENCE
VENUE	Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN '91 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation	INFERENCE
VENUE TYPE	CONFERENCE	INFERENCE
PAGES	71--79	INFERENCE
VOLUME	26	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	53 found	ParsCit 1.0