TY - GEN
T1 - Improving performance for software MPEG players
AU - Zucker, Daniel F.
AU - Flynn, Michael J.
AU - Lee, Ruby B.
N1 - Copyright:
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PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1109/CMPCON.1995.512404
DO - 10.1109/CMPCON.1995.512404
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:0029774991
SN - 0818670290
T3 - Digest of Papers - COMPCON - IEEE Computer Society International Conference
SP - 327
EP - 332
BT - Digest of Papers - COMPCON - IEEE Computer Society International Conference
T2 - Proceedings of the 1996 41st IEEE Computer Society International Conference, COMPCON'96
Y2 - 25 February 1996 through 28 February 1996
ER -