APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR DYNAMICALLY ASSIGNING HEAP MEMORY CAPABLE OF REDUCING CASH MISS

摘要

An apparatus and a method thereof for dynamically assigning a heap memory in order to reduce cache and efficiently use the cache are provided to allocate the heap memory in an area which the cache miss occurs by using the cache miss prediction information. A cache miss prediction unit(310) calculates the cache miss probability of occurrence about each cache line within a cache(330) based on one of past cache access information an past cache miss information. A heap allocating unit(320) assigns the reserved cache line block in response to the heap memory assignment request of an application program(340) based on the cache miss probability of occurrence information calculated by the cache miss estimator of each cache line.