The Performance Implications of Locality
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Frank Bellosa; Martin Steckermeier
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Article
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1996
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Elsevier Science
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English
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The latest processor generations-e.g., HPPA 8000, MIPS R10000 or Ultra SPARC-include a monitoring unit. A processor monitor can count events like read/write cache misses and processor stall cycles due to load and store operations. This information is usually only used for offline profiling. However,