Cache relevant to Squeak code? (was: RE: Skip Lists?!)

danielv at netvision.net.il danielv at netvision.net.il
Thu Oct 4 21:53:40 UTC 2001


Thanks for the pointer!

Jecel Assumpcao Jr <jecel at merlintec.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 October 2001 18:50, Daniel wrote:
> > Well, I happen to be looking at something claiming to be Marios PhD
> > thesis, on the Semantics of OO...
> >
> > Does anyone have pointer on work to make OO-friendly cache schemes?
> > Did they try that in SOAR?
> 
> SOAR was from the pre-cache (on micros, at least) days. Tim was 
> probably thinking about Mario's other papers (see the stuff about gc in 
> http://www.wolczko.com/mushroom/index.html).
> 
> This paper shows that the instruction cache size is more critical than 
> the data cache size (though the write-back policy is important for the 
> type of gc they used):
> 
>     http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/labs/oocsb/papers/oo-hardware.html
> 
> These Java people might have some interesting ideas (note that they 
> have been changing the links at Sun again), the memory papers in 
> particular:
> 
>     http://research.sun.com/people/mario/iccd2000whso/
> 
> Vijaykrishnan Narayanan's 1998 PhD thesis includes stuff about caches 
> for Java:
> 
>    http://www.cse.psu.edu/~vijay/publication.html
> 
> -- Jecel




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