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An authoritative book for hardware and software designers. Caches are by far the simplest and most effective mechanism for improving computer performance. This innovative book exposes the characteristics of performance-optimal single and multi-level cache hierarchies by approaching the cache design process through the novel perspective of minimizing execution times. It presents useful data on the relative performance of a wide spectrum of machines and offers empirical and analytical evaluations of the underlying phenomena. This book will help computer professionals appreciate the impact of caches and enable designers to maximize performance given particular implementation constraints.
Front Cover; Cache and Memory Hierarchy Design: A Performance-Directed Approach; Copyright Page; Preface; Table of Contents; Symbols; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Background Material; 2.1. Terminology; 2.2. Previous Cache Studies; 2.3. Analytical Modelling; 2.4. Temporal Analysis in Cache Design; 2.5. Multi-Level Cache Hierarchies; Chapter 3. The Cache Design Problem and Its Solution; 3.1. Problem Description; 3.2. Two Complementary Approaches; 3.3. Experimental Method; 3.4. Analytical Approach; Chapter 4. Performance-Directed Cache Design; 4.1. Speed -- Size Tradeoffs.
4.2. Speed -- Set Size Tradeoffs4.3. Block Size -- Memory Speed Tradeoffs; 4.4. Globally Optimum Cache Design; Chapter 5. Multi-Level Cache Hierarchies; 5.1. Introduction; 5.2. Motivation; 5.3. Intermediate Cache Design; 5.4. Optimal Memory Hierarchy Design; 5.5. A Detailed Example; 5.6. Fundamental Limits to Performance; 5.7. Summary; Chapter 6. Summary, Implications and Conclusions; 6.1. Summary; 6.2. The Implications of Performance-Directed Cache Design; Appendix A: Validation of the Empirical Results; A.1. The VAX Traces; A.2. The R2000 Traces; A.3. Combining the R2000 and the VAX Results.
Appendix B: Modelling Write Strategy EffectsReferences; Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-219) and index.
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Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Architecture and Design