A Dynamically Partitionable Compressed Cache

The effective size of an L2 cache can be increased by using a dictionary-based compression scheme. Naive application of this idea performs poorly since the data values in a cache greatly vary in their “compressibility.” The novelty of this paper is a scheme that dynamically partitions the cache into...

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Main Authors: Chen, David, Peserico, Enoch, Rudolph, Larry
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: 2003
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/3677