ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 1982 · 55 citations · 8 references
EngineeringComputer ScienceInstructionCompilersComputer ArchitectureInstrumentationInstruction SchedulingInstruction Set ArchitectureMicroarchitecture DesignProcessor MicroarchitectureTiming AnalysisWorst-case Execution Time AnalysisInstruction Cache BehaviorInstruction Timing AnalysisMeasurement-based Worst-case Execution Time AnalysisMicroarchitectural Performance ModelingMicroarchitectural Timing AnalysisMicroarchitecture Performance EvaluationProgramming InstructionTiming Overhead Analysis
This paper reports measurements of instruction set use on the VAX-11/780 computer. A hardware monitor was used to measure the frequency and time taken by each VAX instruction. Data from benchmark programs, a compiler, a linker, and a synthetic timesharing workload are reported. Results show that although some programs rely on a small set of instructions, different applications use the instruction set in different ways.
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