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Program profiling helps in characterizing program behavior for a target architecture. We have implemented a retargetable simulation driven code profiler from a high-level processor description language, Sim-nML. A programming interface has been provided for building customized profilers. The retargetability makes the profiling tool independent of the target instruction set.
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Ravindran, R., Moona, R. (2001). Retargetable Program Profiling Using High Level Processor Models. In: Monien, B., Prasanna, V.K., Vajapeyam, S. (eds) High Performance Computing — HiPC 2001. HiPC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2228. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45307-5_20
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