[comp.arch] RS6000 dynamic instruction counting

varun@firefly.Eng.Sun.COM (Varun Mehta) (05/09/91)

I'm looking at how often some of the more esoteric instructions on the
RS6000 are used, i.e. block copy, mult-add, load/store with update etc.

Does anybody know of an available dynamic instruction count package
for the RS6000?  This is akin to pixie for mips and I've heard of a
publically available one for SPARC as well. 

Varun Mehta

rcg@lpi.liant.com (Rick Gorton) (05/14/91)

In article <13037@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> varun@firefly.Eng.Sun.COM (Varun Mehta) writes:
>Does anybody know of an available dynamic instruction count package
>for the RS6000?  This is akin to pixie for mips and I've heard of a
>publically available one for SPARC as well. 
>
>Varun Mehta

I'm looking for the SPARC package.  Anyone know how I can get it?
A paper by a couple of SUN people presented at ASPLOS-IV refers
to "spix", "spixstats", and "shadow".  Are these the [SPARC] ones
you are alluding to?

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