Execution characteristics of object oriented programs on the UltraSPARC-II

Proceedings - Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 202-211

  Radhakrishnan, R ^a   John, L ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BENCHMARKING; C++ (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE); CACHE MEMORY; REUSABILITY;

BRANCH MISPREDICTIONS; ENGINEERING COMMUNITY; INSTRUCTION CACHE MISS; LEVELS OF ABSTRACTION; OBJECT ORIENTED DESIGN; OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAM; PROGRAMMING PARADIGMS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 85035341834     PISSN: 15506533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HIPC.1998.737990     Document Type: Conference Paper

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