A Performance Analysis of the Implementation of Addressing Methods in Block-Structured Languages
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Dynamic Profile of Instruction Sequences for the IBM System/370
IEEE Transactions on Computers
On the Development of a Measurement System for High Level Language Program Statistics
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Virtual machine showdown: Stack versus registers
ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO)
Agent-oriented programming: from prolog to guarded definite clauses
Agent-oriented programming: from prolog to guarded definite clauses
Continuous signature monitoring: efficient concurrent-detection of processor control errors
ITC'88 Proceedings of the 1988 international conference on Test: new frontiers in testing
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One use of performance measurement techniques is in the study of operational characteristics of programs written in high-level programming languages. Information derived from such studies can be used to construct benchmark programs and synthetic workloads,1,2detect inefficiencies in programming language implementation, and suggest possible improvements in the design of computers.3,9,10Our main interest is in the latter area: the discovery of primitive operations, implied by the semantics of a programming language, that can be added to the firmware or hardware of a computer to improve overall system performance. These computer architecture optimization techniques have been applied in several studies3,9and have been used commercially to design efficient pseudo machines for the Burroughs B1700.10,12