Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
Smalltalk-80: the language and its implementation
Pin: building customized program analysis tools with dynamic instrumentation
Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGPLAN conference on Programming language design and implementation
How to shadow every byte of memory used by a program
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Virtual execution environments
Dytan: a generic dynamic taint analysis framework
Proceedings of the 2007 international symposium on Software testing and analysis
JudoSTM: A Dynamic Binary-Rewriting Approach to Software Transactional Memory
PACT '07 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Parallel Architecture and Compilation Techniques
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The world needs special-purpose accelerators to meet future constraints on computation and power consumption. Choosing appropriate accelerator architectures is a key challenge. In this work, we present a pintool designed to help evaluate the potential benefit of accelerating a particular function. Our tool gathers cross-procedural data usage patterns, including implicit dependencies not captured by arguments and return values. We then use this data to characterize the limits of hardware procedural acceleration imposed by on-chip communication and storage systems. Through an understanding the bottlenecks in future accelerator-based systems we will focus future research on the most performance-critical regions of the design. Accelerator designers will also find our tool useful for selecting which regions of their application to accelerate.