Paper Info
Title
Hot cold optimization of large Windows/NT applications
Abstract
A dynamic instruction trace often contains many unnecessary instructions that are required only by the unexecuted portion of the program. Hot-cold optimization (HCO) is a technique that realizes this performance opportunity. HCO uses profile information to partition each routine into frequently executed (hot) and infrequently executed (cold) parts. Unnecessary operations in the hot portion are removed, and compensation code is added on transitions from hot to cold as needed. We evaluate HCO on a collection of large Windows NT applications. HCO is most effective on the programs that are call intensive and have flat profiles, providing a 3-8% reduction in path length beyond conventional optimization.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1109/MICRO.1996.566452
MICRO
Keywords
Field
DocType
kernel,appropriate technology,instruction sets,optimization,register allocation
Path length,Register allocation,Windows NT,Computer science,Instruction set,Parallel computing,Real-time computing,Operating system
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-8186-7641-8
25
11.28
References 
Authors
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Robert Cohn133131.29
Geoff Lowney22140136.12