Caching in on Sisal: Cache performance of Sisal vs. Fortran

Phillip Nico and Arvin Park

Department of Computer Science
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA 95616

Abstract

In this paper we investigate the relative cache performance of SISAL and FORTRAN through trace-driven simulation of representative scientific applications. The rance of cache configurations considered corresponds to on-chip caches in current and next-generation microprocessors. We find that in unified caches the performance is equivalend. With split instruction and data caches, performance is still comparable, yet the two languages demonstrate somewhat different tendencies.

Full paper Appears in Proceedings of Sisal '93, San Diego, California, October 1993.