{"title":"IDtrace/spl minus/a tracing tool for i486 simulation","authors":"Jim Pierce, T. Mudge","doi":"10.1109/MASCOT.1994.284381","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The authors describe IDtrace, a binary instrumentation tool which produces execution traces for the ix86 instruction set architecture. Long execution traces can be generated quickly and easily for input to a wide variety of performance evaluation tools. Issues involved in the construction of such a tool are listed along with illustrations of the uses of different generated traces. One example observes the behavior of a branch prediction technique and another compares the cache behavior of the i486 with that of the MIPS R3000.<<ETX>>","PeriodicalId":288344,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"19","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MASCOT.1994.284381","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 19
Abstract
The authors describe IDtrace, a binary instrumentation tool which produces execution traces for the ix86 instruction set architecture. Long execution traces can be generated quickly and easily for input to a wide variety of performance evaluation tools. Issues involved in the construction of such a tool are listed along with illustrations of the uses of different generated traces. One example observes the behavior of a branch prediction technique and another compares the cache behavior of the i486 with that of the MIPS R3000.<>