System level perspective on object locality

Cache has long been used to minimize the latency of main memory accesses by storing frequently used data near the processor. Processor performance depends on the underlying cache performance. Therefore, significant research has been done to identify the ...

The trend of increasing the number of cores to achieve higher performance has challenged efficient management of on-chip data. Moreover, many emerging applications process massive amounts of data with varying degrees of locality. Therefore, exploiting ...

Techniques to reduce or tolerate large memory latencies are critical for achieving high processor performance. Hardware data prefetching is one of the most heavily studied solutions, but it is essentially applied to first-level caches where it can ...