The impact of architectural trends on operating system performance

Proceedings of the 15th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, SOSP 1995

Volumn , Issue , 1995, Pages 285-298

  Rosenblum, Mendel ^a   Bugnion, Edouard ^a   Herrod, Stephen Alan ^a   Witchel, Emmett ^a   Gupta, Anoop ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICALLY-SCHEDULED PROCESSOR; MACHINE SIMULATION; MULTIPLE INSTRUCTIONS; PERFORMANCE GAPS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; SYNCHRONIZATION TIME; SYSTEM DEVELOPERS; TRANSACTION PROCESSING;

CLOCKS; COMMUNICATION;

MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84883540577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/224056.224078     Document Type: Conference Paper

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