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Conference Papers Year : 2009

Online compression of cache-filtered address traces

Pierre Michaud
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Abstract

Trace-driven simulation is potentially much faster than cycle-accurate simulation. However, one drawback is the large amount of storage that may be necessary to store traces. Trace compression techniques are useful for decreasing the storage space requirement. But the compression ratio of existing trace compressors is limited because they implement lossless compression. We propose two new methods for compressing cachefiltered address traces. The first method, bytesort, is a lossless compression method that achieves high compression ratios on cache-filtered address traces. The second method is a lossy one, based on the concept of phase. We have combined these two methods in a trace compressor called ATC. Our experimental results show that ATC gives high compression ratio while keeping the memory-locality characteristics of the original trace.
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hal-00780914 , version 1 (25-01-2013)

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Pierre Michaud. Online compression of cache-filtered address traces. IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software, Apr 2009, Boston, United States. ⟨hal-00780914⟩
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