Array regrouping and structure splitting using whole-program reference affinity

Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 255-266

  Zhong, Yutao ^a   Orlovich, Maksim ^a   Shen, Xipeng ^a   Ding, Chen ^a  

^a University of Rochester   (United States)

Author keywords

Array regrouping; Program locality; Program transformation; Reference affinity; Reuse signature; Structure splitting; Volume distance

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DATA STRUCTURES; DYNAMIC RANDOM ACCESS STORAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

ARRAY REGROUPING; PROGRAM LOCALITY; PROGRAM TRANSFORMATION; REFERENCE AFFINITY; REUSE SIGNATURE; STRUCTURE SPLITTING; VOLUME DISTANCE;

CACHE MEMORY;

EID: 8344272049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/996841.996872     Document Type: Conference Paper

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