TY - GEN
T1 - X86-64 instruction usage among C/C++ applications
AU - Akshintala, Amogh
AU - Jain, Bhushan
AU - Tsai, Chia Che
AU - Ferdman, Michael
AU - Porter, Donald E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019/5/22
Y1 - 2019/5/22
N2 - This paper presents a study of x86-64 instruction usage across 9,337 C/C++ applications and libraries in the Ubuntu 16.04 GNU/Linux distribution. We present metrics for reasoning about the relative importance of instructions weighted by the popularity of applications that contain them. From this data, we systematize and empirically ground conventional wisdom regarding the relative importance of various components of an ISA, with particular focus on building binary translation tools. We also verify the representativity of two commonly used benchmark suites, and highlight areas for improvement.
AB - This paper presents a study of x86-64 instruction usage across 9,337 C/C++ applications and libraries in the Ubuntu 16.04 GNU/Linux distribution. We present metrics for reasoning about the relative importance of instructions weighted by the popularity of applications that contain them. From this data, we systematize and empirically ground conventional wisdom regarding the relative importance of various components of an ISA, with particular focus on building binary translation tools. We also verify the representativity of two commonly used benchmark suites, and highlight areas for improvement.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85067091935
U2 - 10.1145/3319647.3325833
DO - 10.1145/3319647.3325833
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85067091935
T3 - SYSTOR 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
SP - 68
EP - 79
BT - SYSTOR 2019 - Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2019
Y2 - 3 June 2019 through 5 June 2019
ER -