article · 1989
The impact of code density on instruction cache performance
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Abstract
The widespread use of reduced-instruction-set computers has generated a lot of interest in the tradeoff between the density of an instruction set and the size of the instruction cache. In this paper we present and justify a method that predicts the cache performance for a wide range of architectures, based on the miss rate for a single architecture. When we apply the method to a number of cache organizations we find that changes in code density can have a dramatic impact on memory traffic, but that modest improvements in code density do not reduce program execution time significantly in a well-balanced system.
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Steenkiste, P. (1989). The impact of code density on instruction cache performance. https://doi.org/10.1145/74925.74954
Steenkiste, Peter. “The impact of code density on instruction cache performance.” 1989, pp. 252–59, https://doi.org/10.1145/74925.74954.
Steenkiste, Peter. 1989. “The impact of code density on instruction cache performance.” https://doi.org/10.1145/74925.74954.
Steenkiste, P. (1989) ‘The impact of code density on instruction cache performance’. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/74925.74954.
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title = {{The impact of code density on instruction cache performance}},
author = {Steenkiste, Peter},
pages = {252--259},
year = {1989},
doi = {10.1145/74925.74954}
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