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B
A P P E N D I X : P E R F O R M A N C E E VA L U AT I O N
This appendix characterizes the used benchmarks and gives the configuration
informations used for the benchmarks described in Chapter 8.
B.1. Benchmark Characterizations
This section gives an overview over the different benchmarks used in this
evaluation. This characterization is meant to facilitate the discussion and interpretation
of our benchmark results in Chapter 8.
We categorize the benchmarks in microbenchmarks and kernel benchmarks to
distinguish their general characteristics and scope. None of these benchmarks
qualifies as a real world application benchmark, as for instance defined by the
DaCapo benchmarks [Blackburn et al., 2006].
The benchmarks used in this evaluation have either been implemented
specifically for our experiments or are derived from commonly used benchmarks.
While the microbenchmarks are designed to measure a single aspect
of the implementation, the kernel benchmarks are meant to represent a number
of typical performance sensitive work loads that can be found embedded
in applications.
The remainder of this section discusses the used benchmarks, their characteristics,
and our expectation of their behavior. Furthermore, we describe the
adaptations to use them in the context of LRSTM and AmbientTalkST, as well
as our expectation of how the benchmark behaves on top of ideal implementations
of these systems.
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