Exploiting Hardware Performance Counters with Flow and Context Sensitive Profiling

SIGPLAN Notices (ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages)

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 85-96

  Ammons, Glenn ^a   Ball, Thomas ^b   Larus, James R ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 0346249913     PISSN: 03621340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/258916.258924     Document Type: Article

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