Architectural characterization and similarity analysis of sunspider and Google's V8 Javascript benchmarks

ISPASS 2012 - IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 221-232

  Tiwari, Devesh ^a   Solihin, Yan ^a  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYTECODES; CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES; JAVASCRIPT; JAVASCRIPTS; MICRO ARCHITECTURES; PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE GAPS; PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; SIMILARITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DATA ANALYSIS;

ARCHITECTURE; CHARACTERIZATION; HIGH LEVEL LANGUAGES;

BENCHMARKING;

EID: 84862082189     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISPASS.2012.6189228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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