Cache Behaviour of the SPEC95 Benchmark Suite

Previous cache studies are becoming rather outdated, since theydeal with older benchmarks (such as those in SPEC92) and smallercache configurations than are now feasible. We remedy this situationby performing a battery of cache tests on several interesting programsin the SPEC95 suite. The applications of chief interest to us are thosethat are represent current trends in computing, such as ijpeg, perl anddatabase programs. We try out a variety of key cache configurationsand do some ...