Performance Enhancement by Eliminating Redundant Function Execution

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	Peng Chen, Krishna Kavi, Robert Akl, "Performance Enhancement by Eliminating Redundant Function Execution," Simulation Symposium, Annual, pp. 143-151, 39th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'06), 2006.

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	@article{ 10.1109/ANSS.2006.34, author = {Peng Chen and Krishna Kavi and Robert Akl}, title = {Performance Enhancement by Eliminating Redundant Function Execution}, journal ={Simulation Symposium, Annual}, volume = {0}, year = {2006}, issn = {1080-241X}, pages = {143-151}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ANSS.2006.34}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - CONF JO - Simulation Symposium, Annual TI - Performance Enhancement by Eliminating Redundant Function Execution SN - 1080-241X SP143 EP151 A1 - Peng Chen, A1 - Krishna Kavi, A1 - Robert Akl, PY - 2006 KW - Function reuse KW - Speculative Execution KW - Value Prediction KW - Instruction Reuse KW - Basic Block Reuse KW - Instruction Level Parallelism KW - SimpleScalar VL - 0 JA - Simulation Symposium, Annual ER -

Peng Chen, University of North Texas

Krishna Kavi, University of North Texas

Robert Akl, University of North Texas

Programs often call the same function with the same arguments, yielding the same results. We call this phenomenon, "function reuse". Previously, we have shown such a behavior for some of the SPEC2000 integer benchmarks using HP ATOM instrumentation tools. However, this required extensive analysis by hand, and assumptions regarding side-effects caused by functions. In this paper, we modified a well-known architecture simulator, SimpleScalar, to analyze multiple benchmarks to investigate the function reuse behavior.

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Function reuse, Speculative Execution, Value Prediction, Instruction Reuse, Basic Block Reuse, Instruction Level Parallelism, SimpleScalar

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Peng Chen, Krishna Kavi, Robert Akl, "Performance Enhancement by Eliminating Redundant Function Execution," anss, pp.143-151, 39th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'06), 2006

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