Performance Nonmonotonicities: A Case Study of the UltraSPARC Processor
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Author(s)
Kushman, Nathaniel A.
Advisor(s)
Strumpen, Volker
Leiserson, Charles E.
Date Issued
June 1998
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MIT-LCS-TR-782
Abstract
Modern microprocessor architectures are very complex designs. Consequently, they exhibit many idiosyncrasies. In fact, situations exist in which the addition or removal of a single instruction changes the performance of a program by a factor of 3 to 4. I
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