VPC3: A fast and effective trace-compression algorithm

Performance Evaluation Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 167-176

  Burtscher, Martin ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Predictor based compression; Trace compression; Trace files

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); PERSONAL COMPUTERS; SUPERVISORY AND EXECUTIVE PROGRAMS;

PREDICTOR-BASED COMPRESSION; PROGRAM EXECUTION; TRACE COMPRESSION; TRACE FILES;

FILE ORGANIZATION;

EID: 8344248841     PISSN: 01635999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1012888.1005708     Document Type: Conference Paper

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