Cache performance of the integer SPEC benchmarks on a RISC
Dionisios N. Pnevmatikatos, Mark D. Hill · ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News · 1990
SPEC is a new set of benchmark programs designed to measure a computer system's performance. The performance measured by benchmarks is strongly affected by the existence and configuration of cache memory. In this paper we evaluate the cache miss ratio of the Integer SPEC benchmarks. We show that the cache miss ratio depends strongly on the program, and that large caches are not completely exercised by these benchmarks.