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Book Synopsis
1 Introduction.- 2 Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Related Work.- 3 Analyzer Interface.- 4 Implementation.- 5 Cross Shades.- 6 Performance.- 7 Conclusions.- 8 Acknowledgements.- 3 Instrumentation Tools.- 1 Introduction.- 2 When To Instrument Code.- 3 How Late Code Modification Tools are Built.- 4 Current Instrumentation Tools.- 4 Stack-Based Single-Pass Cache Simulation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Single-Pass Cache Simulation.- 3 Extensions to Single-Pass Techniques.- 4 Concluding remarks.- 5 Non-Stack Single-Pass Simulation.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Fully-associative Cache Simulation.- 3 Binomial Forest Simulation.- 4 Write-buffer Simulation.- 5 Directions for future work.- 6 Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Implementation Decisions.- 3 Example Simulators.- 4 Code Augmentations.- 5 The Simulator Half.- 6 Performance Characteristics.- 7 Summary.- 7 Sampling for Cache and Processor Simulation.- 1 I
Table of Contents
1. Introduction; T. M. Conte, C. E. Gimarc. 2. SHADE: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling; B. Cmelik, D. Keppel. 3. Instrumentation Tools; J. Pierce et al. 4. Stack-Based Single-Pass Cache Simulation; T. M. Conte. 5. Non-Stack Single-Pass Simulation; R. A. Sugumar, S. G. Abraham. 6. Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors; B. Boothe. 7. Sampling for Cache and Processor Simulation; K. N. Menezes. 8. Performance Bounds for Rapid Computer System Evaluation; B. Mangione-Smith. Index.
