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2011 Jun 10
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[LLVMdev] Advice on architecture research project?
...-accurate" simulator or the real hardware. Due to the poor performance of cycle-accurate simulators in terms of accuracy, I am not considering currently. Among the real hardware, X86 is a favorable choice due to wide availability for me to experiment with different configurations. However, its CISCity scares me too. Is it possible to choose a small subset of X86 ISA, without scary addressing modes and emitting only those instructions from LLVM. Will generally available hardware profiling tools work fine in such a case. Is there any info available for any such subset has been defined and used by...