Improving performance for software MPEG players

Daniel F. Zucker; Michael J. Flynn; Ruby B. Lee

doi:10.1109/CMPCON.1995.512404

Improving performance for software MPEG players

Daniel F. Zucker, Michael J. Flynn, Ruby B. Lee

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a technique for improving the cache memory performance for software MPEG players. We motivate this technique by first presenting a characterization of cache behavior for mpeg-play and mpeg2play MPEG applications. We then apply two hardware-based prefetching techniques to improve the cache memory performance. Previously published work has focused on applications of prefetching towards only scientific applications. The prefetching technique presented here eliminates approximately 80% of cache misses and potentially reduces execution time by a factor of two.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Digest of Papers - COMPCON - IEEE Computer Society International Conference
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	327-332
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	0818670290
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CMPCON.1995.512404
State	Published - 1996
Event	Proceedings of the 1996 41st IEEE Computer Society International Conference, COMPCON'96 - Santa Clara, CA, USA Duration: Feb 25 1996 → Feb 28 1996

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Other	Proceedings of the 1996 41st IEEE Computer Society International Conference, COMPCON'96
City	Santa Clara, CA, USA
Period	2/25/96 → 2/28/96

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Hardware and Architecture

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