Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling

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Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling (1994)

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by Bob Cmelik , David Keppel

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@MISC{Cmelik94shade:a,
    author = {Bob Cmelik and David Keppel},
    title = {Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling},
    year = {1994}
}

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Abstract

Tracing tools are used widely to help analyze, design, and tune both hardware and software systems. This paper describes a tool called Shade which combines efficient instruction-set simulation with a flexible, extensible trace generation capability. Efficiency is achieved by dynamically compiling and caching code to simulate and trace the application program. The user may control the extent of tracing in a variety of ways; arbitrarily detailed application state information may be collected during the simulation, but tracing less translates directly into greater efficiency. Current Shade implementations run on SPARC systems and simulate the SPARC (Versions 8 and 9) and MIPS I instruction sets. This paper describes the capabilities, design, implementation, and performance of Shade, and discusses instruction set emulation in general.

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execution profiling fast instruction-set simulator application state information extensible trace generation capability application program tracing tool software system sparc system efficient instruction-set simulation current shade implementation

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