Improving cache locality by a combination of loop and data transformations

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-167

  Kandemir, Mahmut ^a,b   Ramanujam, J ^a,c   Choudhary, Alok ^a,d  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b Syracuse University   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Caches; Data reuse; Locality; Loop and data transformations; Optimizing compilers

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); DATA PROCESSING; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROGRAM COMPILERS; RESPONSE TIME (COMPUTER SYSTEMS);

COMPILER ALGORITHMS; DATA TRANSFORMATIONS; LOOP TRANSFORMATIONS;

BUFFER STORAGE;

EID: 0033075413     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/12.752657     Document Type: Article

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