Abstract Software Fault Isolation (SFI) is an effective approach to sandboxing binary code of
questionable provenance, an interesting use case for native plugins in a Web browser. We …

Prefetching is a well-studied technique for addressing the memory access stall time of
contemporary microprocessors. However, despite a large body of related work, the memory …

Multiple object tracking has been formulated recently as a global optimization problem, and
solved efficiently with optimal methods such as the Hungarian Algorithm. A severe limitation …

Prefetching which predicts future memory accesses and preloads them from main memory,
is a widely-adopted technique to overcome the processor-memory performance gap …

Many opportunities exist to improve micro-architectural performance due to performance
events that are difficult to optimize at static compile time. Cache misses and branch mis …

Traditional software controlled data cache prefetching is often ineffective due to the lack of
runtime cache miss and miss address information. To overcome this limitation, we …

While profile guided optimizations (PGO) and link time optimiza-tions (LTO) have been
widely adopted, post link optimizations (PLO) have languished until recently when …

Ispike is a post-link optimizer developed for the Intel/spl reg/Itanium Processor Family (IPF)
processors. The IPF architecture poses both opportunities and challenges to post-link …

To accommodate the growing demand for memory capacity in a cost-effective way, multiple
types of memory are incorporated in a single system. In such tiered memory systems …

Cache miss stalls hurt performance because of the large gap between memory and
processor speeds-for example, the popular server benchmark SPEC JBB2000 spends 45 …