Entropy-Based Analysis of Benchmarks for Instruction Set Simulators

Abstract

Instruction-Set Simulators (ISSs) are widely used to simulate the execution of programs for a target architecture on a host machine. They translate the instructions of the program that should be executed into instructions of the host Instruction-Set Architecture (ISA). The performance of ISSs strongly depends on the implementation and the instructions that should be executed. Therefore, benchmarks that are used to compare the performance of ISSs should contain a variety of instructions. Since many benchmarks are written in high-level programming languages, it is usually not clear to the user which instructions are underlying the benchmarks.

Authors 5

1. Nils Bosbach Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University, Germany

2. Lukas Jünger
   Affiliation as printed

   MachineWare GmbH, Germany

3. Rebecca Pelke Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University, Germany

4. Niko Zurstraßen Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

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   RWTH Aachen University, Germany

5. Rainer Leupers Aachen

   RWTH Aachen University

   Affiliation as printed

   RWTH Aachen University, Germany