Re: Determining instruction mix

pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Thu, 9 Feb 1995 02:43:07 GMT

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From: pardo@cs.washington.edu (David Keppel)
Keywords: architecture, testing
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, U. of Washington, Seattle
References: 95-02-077
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 1995 02:43:07 GMT

>[How can I study the dynamic instruction mix of a program?]


Well, here I go, blowing my own horn again. A variety of tools are
described in


%A Bob Cmelik
%A David Keppel
%T Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling
%J Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGMETRICS Conference
on the Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
%D May 1994
%P 128-137


For details, see the URL


http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pardo/papers.d/shade.html


If your programs can run on a SPARC, consider using Shade. It's free,
it will give you useful counts of dynamic instruction mix, and the
distribution includes e.g. an analyzer that generates a color
PostScript(tm) chart of the N most frequent instruction pairs. You
can find out more about getting Shade from the FAQ, available from the
URL


ftp://ftp.cs.washington.edu/pub/pardo/shade-license.lpr


If you don't have WWW or anon ftp, you can write me and I'll send you
a copy of the FAQ.


;-D on ( The tracing fool ) Pardo
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