Title :
Cache performance of the SPEC92 benchmark suite
Author :
Gee, Jeffrey D. ; Hill, Mark D. ; Pnevmatikatos, Dionisions N. ; Smith, Alan Jay
Author_Institution :
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors consider whether SPECmarks, the figures of merit obtained from running the SPEC benchmarks under certain specified conditions, accurately indicate the performance to be expected from real, live work loads. Miss ratios for the entire set of SPEC92 benchmarks are measured. It is found that instruction cache miss ratios in general, and data cache miss ratios for the integer benchmarks, are quite low. Data cache miss ratios for the floating-point benchmarks are more in line with published measurements for real work loads.<>
Keywords :
buffer storage; performance evaluation; SPEC92 benchmark suite; SPECmarks; data cache miss ratios; floating-point benchmarks; instruction cache miss ratios; integer benchmarks; Analog computers; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer networks; Ear; Integral equations; Maxwell equations; Physics computing; Quantum computing; Runtime;
Journal_Title :
Micro, IEEE
