Architectural characterization of XQuery workloads on modern processors
Rubao Lee, Bihui Duan, Taoying Liu · 2007
As XQuery rapidly emerges as the standard for querying XML documents, it is very important to understand the architectural characteristics and behaviors of such workloads. A lot of efforts are focused on the implementation, optimization, and evaluation of XQuery tools. However, few or no prior work studies the architectural and memory system behaviors of XQuery workloads on modern hardware platforms. This makes it unclear whether modern CPU techniques, such as the multi-level caches and hardware branch predictors, can support such workloads well enough.