Re: Determining instruction mix

gardner@pink-panther.cs.uiuc.edu (Mark K. Gardner)
Tue, 7 Feb 1995 14:34:12 GMT

          From comp.compilers
Related articles
Determining instruction mix s9154221@mella.ee.up.ac.za (1995-02-06)
Re: Determining instruction mix nandu@cs.clemson.edu (1995-02-07)
Re: Determining instruction mix gardner@pink-panther.cs.uiuc.edu (1995-02-07)
Re: Determining instruction mix mueller@nu.cs.fsu.edu (1995-02-08)
Re: Determining instruction mix pardo@cs.washington.edu (1995-02-09)
Re: Determining instruction mix roos@grendel.csc.smith.edu (1995-02-09)
| List of all articles for this month |
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
From: gardner@pink-panther.cs.uiuc.edu (Mark K. Gardner)
Keywords: architecture, testing
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
References: 95-02-068
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 14:34:12 GMT

Rikus Combrinck (s9154221@mella.ee.up.ac.za) wrote:
: I'm looking for software that can determine the dynamic
: instructions mix of a programme, ...
: [Somewhere I was a paper about a system that does this by instrumenting
: basic blocks so it makes one count per block rather than per instruction,
: then post-proccesses to get the instruction counts. -John]


I seem to remember that the folks at University of Wisconsin - Madison
had a system to instrument basic blocks (as John pointed out). Their
purpose was to generate memory reference traces, so it may not do exactly
what you had in mind. But then again, maybe it could be extended.


-Mark- mkgardne@uiuc.edu (mkgardne@cs.uiuc.edu)
--

Post a followup to this message

Return to the comp.compilers page.
Search the comp.compilers archives again.