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Evaluating Performance and Power of Object-Oriented Vs. Procedural Programming in Embedded Processors

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The development of high-performance and low power portable devices relies on both the underlying hardware architecture and technology as well as on the application software that executes on embedded processor cores. It has been extensively pointed out that the increasing complexity and decreasing time-to-market of embedded software can only be confronted by the use of modular and reusable code, which forces software designers to use objected oriented programming languages such as C++. However, the object-oriented approach is known to introduce a significant performance penalty compared to classical procedural programming. In this paper, the object oriented programming style is evaluated in terms of both performance and power for embedded applications. A set of benchmark kernels is compiled and executed on an embedded processor simulator, while the results are fed to instruction level and memory power models to estimate the power consumption of each system component for both programming styles.

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  1. Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Str., 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Alexander Chatzigeorgiou & George Stephanides

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  1. Institute of Computer-Aided Automation, Technical University Vienna, Treitlstraße 1-3, 1040, Vienna, Austria

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  2. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

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Chatzigeorgiou, A., Stephanides, G. (2002). Evaluating Performance and Power of Object-Oriented Vs. Procedural Programming in Embedded Processors. In: Blieberger, J., Strohmeier, A. (eds) Reliable Software Technologies — Ada-Europe 2002. Ada-Europe 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2361. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48046-3_5

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