1 Introduction -- 2 Shade: A Fast Instruction-Set Simulator for Execution Profiling -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Related Work -- 3 Analyzer Interface -- 4 Implementation -- 5 Cross Shades -- 6 Performance -- 7 Conclusions -- 8 Acknowledgements -- 3 Instrumentation Tools -- 1 Introduction -- 2 When To Instrument Code -- 3 How Late Code Modification Tools are Built -- 4 Current Instrumentation Tools -- 4 Stack-Based Single-Pass Cache Simulation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Single-Pass Cache Simulation -- 3 Extensions to Single-Pass Techniques -- 4 Concluding remarks -- 5 Non-Stack Single-Pass Simulation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fully-associative Cache Simulation -- 3 Binomial Forest Simulation -- 4 Write-buffer Simulation -- 5 Directions for future work -- 6 Execution Driven Simulation of Shared Memory Multiprocessors -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Implementation Decisions -- 3 Example Simulators -- 4 Code Augmentations -- 5 The Simulator Half -- 6 Performance Characteristics -- 7 Summary -- 7 Sampling for Cache and Processor Simulation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Statistical Sampling -- 3 An Example -- 4 Concluding Remarks -- 8 Performance Bounds for Rapid Computer System Evaluation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Outline of Approach -- 3 Simple Bounds Model -- 4 Data Dependence And Scalar CPUs -- 5 MACS: A Hierarchical Performance Model -- 6 Conclusion.