1 Introduction. - 2 Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Related Work. - 3 Analyzer Interface. - 4 Implementation. - 5 Cross Shades. - 6 Performance. - 7 Conclusions. - 8 Acknowledgements. - 3 Instrumentation Tools. - 1 Introduction. - 2 When To Instrument Code. - 3 How Late Code Modification Tools are Built. - 4 Current Instrumentation Tools. - 4 Stack-Based Single-Pass Cache Simulation. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Single-Pass Cache Simulation. - 3 Extensions to Single-Pass Techniques. - 4 Concluding remarks. - 5 Non-Stack Single-Pass Simulation. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Fully-associative Cache Simulation. - 3 Binomial Forest Simulation. - 4 Write-buffer Simulation. - 5 Directions for future work. - 6 Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Implementation Decisions. - 3 Example Simulators. - 4 Code Augmentations. - 5 The Simulator Half. - 6 Performance Characteristics. - 7 Summary. - 7 Sampling for Cache and Processor Simulation. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Statistical Sampling. - 3 An Example. - 4 Concluding Remarks. - 8 Performance Bounds for Rapid Computer System Evaluation. - 1 Introduction. - 2 Outline of Approach. - 3 Simple Bounds Model. - 4 Data Dependence And Scalar CPUs. - 5 MACS: A Hierarchical Performance Model. - 6 Conclusion. Language: English