Paper Info
Title
Mastering Startup Costs in Assembler-Based Compiled Instruction-Set Simulation
Abstract
The increasing size and complexity of embedded software requires extremely fast instruction-set simulation. Compiled instruction-set simulation can provide high simulation speed, but the cost of generating and compiling the simulator can be a problem. We claim that efficient compiled instruction-set simulation with small startup costs is possible, using our assembler-level approach. We present Absciss, a retargetable and flexible system that generates optimized compiled simulators from assembler programs. Experimental results show the produced simulators to be significantly faster than interpretive simulators, and also show that our assembler-based approach allows to master the simulator generation and compilation times.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/INTERA.2002.995841
Interaction between Compilers and Computer Architectures
Keywords
Field
DocType
assembler program,high simulation speed,simulator generation,embedded software,compilation time,interpretive simulator,assembler-based approach,instruction-set simulation,mastering startup costs,assembler-level approach,virtual machines,embedded systems,optimizing compiler,instruction sets,read only memory,discrete event simulation,computer simulation,computational modeling,computer architecture,context modeling
Instruction set simulation,Virtual machine,Embedded software,Computer architecture simulator,Instruction set,Computer science,Inline assembler,Operating system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7695-1534-7
3
0.46
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ronan Amicel130.46
Francois Bodin2544.85