What is it about?

Describes two static program analyses that determine for each point in a program which memory blocks will definitely be in cache and which will definitely not be in cache when execution reaches this program point.

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Why is it important?

Cache analysis is an essential part of WCET analysis.

Perspectives

The described static analysis is still the dominating one. However, the independence assumption between cache and pipeline analysis turned out to be false for most architectures.

Professor Dr. Reinhard Wilhelm
Universitat des Saarlandes

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This page is a summary of: , Real-Time Systems, January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1023/a:1008141130870.
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