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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2001
Filed:
Feb. 27, 1998
Marcus G. A. Verhoeven, Eindhoven, NL;
Ramon A. W. Clout, Eindhoven, NL;
Alexander Augusteijn, Eindhoven, NL;
U.S. Philips Corporation, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A score is computed of how many cache misses occur for the execution of each of a number of blocks. The score is used as a heuristic in a local search in which an original selection is iteratively replaced each time by a selection that differs from the original selection only by the movement of a single block and that has a lower number of cache misses for the sample of execution than the original selection. Thus a selection of locations for placing instructions of a program in main memory is found that minimizes the number of cache misses that occur for a sample of a typical execution of the program.