Embra: Fast and flexible machine simulation

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 68-79

  Witchel, Emmett ^a   Rosenblum, Mendel ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Stanford University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CACHE HIERARCHY; CACHES; CODE SEQUENCE; DYNAMIC BINARY TRANSLATION; EMBRA SIMULATOR; MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT; SIMOS SIMULATION SYSTEM; WORKLOAD;

BINARY CODES; BINARY SEQUENCES; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0030146860     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/233008.233025     Document Type: Article

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