CSCI 5806 - Operating Systems

Topic 7 - Performance and Processor Design

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Chapter 14

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Performance and Processor Design

  • Important Trends
  • Why Monitor and Evaluate?
  • Performance Measures
  • Performance Evaluation Techniques
    • Tracing and Profiling
    • Timings and Microbenchmarks
    • Application-Specific Evaluation
    • Analytic Models and Benchmarks
    • Synthetic Programs and Simulation
    • Performance Monitoring
  • Bottlenecks and Saturation
  • Feedback Loops
    • Negative Feedback
    • Positive Feedback
  • Processor Design Performance Techniques
    • Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC)
    • Reduced Instruction Set Computing (RISC)
    • Post-RISC and Explicitly Parallel Instruction Computing (EPIC)

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Chapter 14 - Performance and Processor Design

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