A Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science

Thesis (M.Sc.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1995

An improvement of software complexity continues to widen the gap between consumer time requirement and computer performance. To reduce the gap, an application program performance holds very important role. Application programs with good cache performance and less instructions run much faster than those with poor cache performance and greater instructions. Furthermore, consumer also highly concern with reliable, safe, portable, and extendible software parameters. Therefore, It is wise for programmers or software developers to know the behavior of languages they are implementing without loosing those parameters. Object-oriented application program (OOAP) is one of the well-known language paradigms widely used right now. This language presentation is very flexible. Here we are talking about OOAP written in C++. We can adjust our programming environment without changing principle of algorithm implemented in particular problem. The flexible behavior of language presentation is very important feature in terms of cache behavior. In this thesis work, we examine three object-oriented application programs and one conventional language representation in terms of cache performance and the number of instructions consumed to execute a particular problem. We show the CPROF, a cache profiler, report to identify the advantages and disadvantages of those application programs. This advantages and disadvantages help programmers understand which of the application program are likely to improve cache performance and computer performance as a whole.