Predicting conditional branch directions from previous runs of a program
ASPLOS V Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Architectural support for programming languages and operating systems
The measured performance of personal computer operating systems
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS) - Special issue on operating system principles
An analysis of dynamic branch prediction schemes on system workloads
ISCA '96 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Studies of Windows NT performance using dynamic execution traces
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
Using latency to evaluate interactive system performance
OSDI '96 Proceedings of the second USENIX symposium on Operating systems design and implementation
System support for automatic profiling and optimization
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
DIGITAL FX!32: combining emulation and binary translation
Digital Technical Journal
Execution characteristics of desktop applications on Windows NT
Proceedings of the 25th annual international symposium on Computer architecture
Spike: an optimizer for alpha/NT executables
NT'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Windows NT Workshop on The USENIX Windows NT Workshop 1997
Overcoming the challenges to feedback-directed optimization (Keynote Talk)
DYNAMO '00 Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Dynamic and adaptive compilation and optimization
Proceedings of the international symposium on Code generation and optimization: feedback-directed and runtime optimization
Operating system support for multi-user, remote, graphical interaction
ATEC '00 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
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This paper examines common assumptions about user-specific profiling in profile-based optimization. We study execution profiles of interactive applications on Windows NT to understand how different users use the same program. The profiles were generated by the DIGITAL FX!32 emulator/binary translator system, which automatically runs the x86 version of Windows NT programs on NT/Alpha computers. We have found that people use the benchmark programs in different ways. These differences in program usage can have impact on the performance of profile-based FX!32 program translation and optimization, up to 9%.