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Energy is a critical resource in many computing systems, motivating the need for energy-efficient software design. This work proposes a new approach, energy-driven statistical sampling, to help software developers reason about the energy impact of software design decisions. We describe a prototype implementation of this approach built on the Itsy pocket computing platform. Our experimental results of 14 benchmark programs show that when multiple power states are exercised, energy-driven statistical sampling provides greater accuracy than existing time-driven statistical sampling approaches. Furthermore, if instruction-level energy attribution is desired, energy-driven statistical sampling may provide better resolution. On simple handheld systems, however, many applications may exercise only a single power state other than idle mode. In this case, time profiling may sufficiently approximate energy profiling for the purpose of assisting programmers, without requiring any hardware support.
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Chang, F., Farkas, K.I., Ranganathan, P. (2003). Energy-Driven Statistical Sampling: Detecting Software Hotspots. In: Falsafi, B., Vijaykumar, T.N. (eds) Power-Aware Computer Systems. PACS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2325. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36612-1_8
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