Analyzing Contextual Bias of Program Execution on Modern CPUs (Lars Kirkholt Mel

Analyzing Contextual Bias of Program Execution on Modern CPUsLars Kirkholt MelhusMaster of Science in Computer ScienceSupervisor: Anne Cathrine Elster, IDI Co-supervisor: Rune E. Jensen, IDIDepartment of Computer and Information ScienceSubmission date: June 2013Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyiProblem Description Variations in execution context has been shown to affect performance of programs on recent CPUs. Previous work has looked at offsetting the stack and changing link order