Improving performance for software MPEG players (1996) [3 citations — 1 self]
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by Daniel F. Zucker, Michael J. Flynn, Ruby B. Lee
In Digest of Papers: COMPCON Spring '96
ftp://umunhum.stanford.edu/tr/mpeg_mem.ps.Z
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Abstract:
In this paper, we present a technique for improving the cache memory performance for software MPEG players. We motivate this technique by first presenting a characterization of cache behavior for mpeg play and mpeg2play MPEG applications. We then apply two hardware-based prefetching techniques to improve the cache memory performance. Previously published work has focused on applications of prefetching towards only scientific applications. The prefetching technique presented here eliminates approximately 80 % of cache misses and potentially reduces execution time by a factor of two. 1.
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