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- From: moss@cs.cmu.edu (Eliot Moss)
- Subject: Re: optimizing for caches
- Reply-To: moss@cs.cmu.edu (Eliot Moss)
- Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst)
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:07:22 GMT
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- Keywords: optimize, architecture, bibliography
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- Look back through the last few SIGPLAN and ASPLOS conference proceedings and
- related material. You'll find work addressing cache issues for addressing
- arrays within loops, and for moving code around to get better instruction
- cache performance. There has also been a little bit of work done on using
- "prefetch" instructions to request cache loading in advance to avoid miss
- penalties.
-
- Here are some of the relevant references (from a seminar I gave last spring
- titled "Compiling for Modern Architectures"):
-
- @string{acm = "ACM"}
- @string{ibmjrd = "IBM Journal of Research and Development"}
- @string{ieeetoc = "IEEE Transactions on Computers"}
- @string{toplas = "ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems"}
-
- @InProceedings{CKP91,
- author = "David Callahan and Ken Kennedy and Allan Porterfield",
- title = "Software Prefetching",
- crossref = "asplos4",
- pages = "40--52"
- }
-
- @InProceedings{McFarling89,
- author = "Scott McFarling",
- title = "Program Optimization for Instruction Caches",
- crossref = "asplos3",
- pages = "183--191"
- }
-
- @InProceedings{McFarling91,
- author = "Scott McFarling",
- title = "Procedure Merging with Instruction Caches",
- crossref = "sigplan91",
- pages = "71--79"
- }
-
- @InProceedings{OA89,
- author = "Susan Owicki and Anant Agarwal",
- title = "Evaluating the Performance of Software Cache Coherence",
- crossref = "asplos3",
- pages = "230--242"
- }
-
- @InProceedings{WL91,
- author = "Michael E. Wolf and Monica S. Lam",
- title = "A Data Locality Optimizing Algorithm",
- crossref = "sigplan91",
- pages = "30--44"
- }
-
- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
- @Proceedings{asplos3,
- title = "Third International Conference on Architectural Support for
- Programming Languages and Operating Systems",
- booktitle = "Third International Conference on Architectural Support for
- Programming Languages and Operating Systems",
- year = 1989,
- key = "ASPLOS",
- publisher = acm,
- address = "Boston, MA",
- month = apr
- }
-
- @Proceedings{asplos4,
- title = "Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for
- Programming Languages and Operating Systems",
- booktitle = "Fourth International Conference on Architectural Support for
- Programming Languages and Operating Systems",
- year = 1991,
- key = "ASPLOS",
- publisher = acm,
- address = "Santa Clara, CA",
- month = apr
- }
-
- @Proceedings{sigplan91,
- title = "Proceedings of the {SIGPLAN} '91 Conference on Programming
- Language Design and Implementation",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the {SIGPLAN} '91 Conference on Programming
- Language Design and Implementation",
- year = 1991,
- key = "SIGPLAN",
- publisher = acm,
- address = "Toronto",
- month = jun
- }
-
- Hope this helps -- Eliot Moss
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