An Analysis of Cache Performance of Multimedia Applications

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-38

  Xu, Zhiyong ^a   Sohoni, Sohum ^a   Min, Rui ^a   Hu, Yiming ^a  

^a University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Cache performance; Memory systems; Multimedia applications; TLB

Indexed keywords

CACHE PERFORMANCE; MEMORY SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHMS; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STRUCTURES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0742286174     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TC.2004.1255788     Document Type: Article

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