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A measure of program locality and its application

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Richard B. Bunt,

Jennifer M. Murphy,

Shikharesh MajumdarAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 12, Issue 3

Pages 28 - 40

https://doi.org/10.1145/1031382.809311

Published: 01 January 1984 Publication History

Abstract

Although the phenomenon of locality has long been recognized as the single most important characteristic of program behaviour, relatively little work has been done in attempting to measure it. Recent work has led to the development of an intrinsic measure of program locality based on the Bradford-Zipf distribution. Potential applications for such a measure are many, and include the evaluation of program restructuring methods (manual and automatic), the prediction of system performance, the validation of program behaviour models, and the enhanced understanding of the phenomena that characterize program behaviour. A consideration of each of these areas is given in connection with the proposed measure, both to increase confidence in the validity of the measure and to illustrate a methodology for dealing with such problems.

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A measure of program locality and its application
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Performance
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
      1. Operating systems
        Memory management
        Main memory
        Process management
    2. Extra-functional properties
      1. Software performance

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ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review Volume 12, Issue 3

August 1984

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DOI:10.1145/1031382

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