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Decanting the Contribution of Instruction Types and Loop Structures in the Reuse of Traces
Reuse has been proposed as a microarchitecture-level mechanism to reduce the
amount of executed instructions, collapsing dependencies and freeing resources
for other instructions. Previous works have used reuse domains such as memory
accesses, integer or not floating point, based on the reusability rate.
However, these works have not studied the specific contribution of reusing
different subsets of instructions for performance. In this work, we analysed
the sensitivity of trace reuse to instruction subsets, comparing their
efficiency to their complementary subsets. We also studied the amount of reuse
that can be extracted from loops. Our experiments show that disabling trace
reuse outside loops does not harm performance but reduces in 12% the number of
accesses to the reuse table. Our experiments with reuse subsets show that most
of the speedup can be retained even when not reusing all types of instructions
previously found in the reuse domain