SIGMETRICS '87 Proceedings of the 1987 ACM SIGMETRICS conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Measurement and evaluation of the MIPS architecture and processor
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
An analysis of 8086 instruction set usage in MS DOS programs
ASPLOS III Proceedings of the third international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
Measurement and analysis of instruction use in the VAX-11/780
ISCA '82 Proceedings of the 9th annual symposium on Computer Architecture
An analysis of a mesa instruction set using dynamic instruction frequencies
ASPLOS I Proceedings of the first international symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
A case study of VAX-11 instruction set usage for compiler execution
ASPLOS I Proceedings of the first international symposium on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
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When modeling a computer system, it is necessary to study the system's dynamic behavior. Examples of this behavior are branching frequency and operating system usage patterns. The dynamic properties of the system characterize its performance. Models make assumptions about such behavior, but require genuine data to validate the assumptions. In this article, we present a measurement tool that will collect and analyze dynamic program information for the Intel 8086/88. The design and development of the collection tool and its post-processors is described. Details of the interface and collection methods are also given. Finally, a Pascal compilation and a benchmark execution are used to provide examples of data gathered with the tools.