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10 lines
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Code analyzers lay at the boundary of program analysis and microarchitectural
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knowledge. In order to understand their internal models, and how they derive
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performance metrics from them, notions on both of those worlds are needed.
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This first chapter aims to lay the foundations for this manuscript. To this
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end, we first go over a coarse-grained view of the microarchitectural details
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of the parts of a modern processor relevant to our works. We then introduce
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notions and metrics on program analysis that will be used throughout this
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thesis. Finally, we summarize the current state of the art in the field of code
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analyzers, and relevant neighbouring topics.
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