Execution characteristics of SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks: Intel C++ vs. microsoft VC++

Proceedings of the Annual Southeast Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 261-266

  Gurumani, Swathi Tanjore ^a   Milenkovic, Aleksandar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Compiler optimizations; Event based sampling; Performance evaluation; SPEC CPU2000 benchmarks

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PERFORMANCE; ARCHITECTURAL FEATURES; BRANCH PREDICTORS; COMPILER OPTIMIZATIONS; COMPUTER VISUALIZATION; EVENT-BASED; EVENT-BASED SAMPLING; FLOATING POINTS; GRAPHICAL APPLICATIONS; MICROSOFT; MODERN PROCESSORS; MULTI-LEVEL CACHE; OPTIMAL CODES; OUT-OF-ORDER EXECUTION; PATH LENGTH; PENALTY MINIMIZATION; PENTIUM; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE METRICS; PERFORMANCE MONITORING;

OPTIMIZATION; VISUALIZATION;

PROGRAM COMPILERS;

EID: 32844460210     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/986537.986599     Document Type: Conference Paper

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