Atom

• Alan Eustace and Amitabh Srivastava (1994)

• Examples of use

  • Simulate a cache with specific parameters (size, block size, associativity). Output total memory accesses and cache misses.
  • Generate a histogram of heap data sizes allocated
  • Simulate a branch prediction scheme. Output successes.

• How done

  • Atom inserts code into a binary to do specific tasks.

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