Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking outlines a variety of evaluation methods and benchmark suites, consider the strengths, weaknesses, and when each is suitable for use. Here's an overview of important performance analysis techniques, the book surveys contemporary benchmark suites for specific areas, such as Java, embedded systems, CPUs, and Web server. The next chapter explains how to choose the appropriate average to report metrics and provides detailed treatment of statistical methods, including summary statistics, how to apply statistical sampling for simulation, how to apply SimPoint, and comprehensive statistical simulation. Three chapters devoted to hardware performance counters conclude the book. Provide abundant illustrations, examples, and case studies, Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking offers a firm foundation in evaluation methods along with up-to-date techniques required to develop the next generation architecture.