Improving UNIX Kernel and Networking Performance Using Profile Based Optimization

USENIX Winter 1994 Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 181-188

  Speer, Steven E ^a   Kumar, Rajiv ^a   Partridge, Craig ^b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; COMPILING TECHNIQUES; INSTRUCTION CACHE MISS; KERNEL IMAGE; MICRO-BENCHMARK; RISC ARCHITECTURE; SYSTEM CODES;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 0346837116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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