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 * This file is part of the SimPoint Toolkit written by Greg Hamerly,
 * Erez Perelman, Jeremy Lau, Tim Sherwood, and Brad Calder as part of
 * Efficient Simulation Project at UCSD.  If you find this toolkit useful please
 * cite the following paper published at ASPLOS 2002.
 *
 *  Timothy Sherwood, Erez Perelman, Greg Hamerly and Brad Calder,
 *  Automatically Characterizing Large Scale Program Behavior , In the
 *  10th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming
 *  Languages and Operating Systems, October 2002.
 *
 * Contact info:
 *        Brad Calder <[email protected]>, (858) 822 - 1619
 *        Greg Hamerly <[email protected]>,
 *        Erez Perelman <[email protected]>,
 *        Jeremy Lau <[email protected]>,
 *        Tim Sherwood <[email protected]>
 *
 *        University of California, San Diego
 *        Department of Computer Science and Engineering
 *        9500 Gilman Drive, Dept 0114
 *        La Jolla CA 92093-0114 USA
 *
 *
 * Copyright 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 The Regents of the University of
 * California All Rights Reserved
 *
 * Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute any part of this
 * SimPoint Toolkit for educational, non-profit, and industry research
 * purposes, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby
 * granted, provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and
 * the following four paragraphs appear in all copies and every modified
 * file.   
 *
 * Permission is not granted to include SimPoint into a commercial product.
 * Those desiring to incorporate this SimPoint Toolkit into commercial
 * products should contact the Technology Transfer Office, University of
 * California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0910, Ph:
 * (619) 534-5815, FAX: (619) 534-7345.
 *
 * IN NO EVENT SHALL THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BE LIABLE TO ANY PARTY
 * FOR DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
 * INCLUDING LOST PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SimPoint
 * Toolkit, EVEN IF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE
 * POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 *
 * THE SimPoint Toolkit PROVIDED HEREIN IS ON AN "AS IS" BASIS, AND THE
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File: README.txt
Author: Greg Hamerly
Date:8/20/2002

This code should build using make/g++, it may require some tweaks to build
with another compiler. To build with make, simply type "make" in this
directory.  

This program (simpoint) reads frequency vector files. The file format is a
sparse array, with one vector per line of the file. Each valid line begins with
a capital 'T', and each entry has format ":dimension:value" with spaces in
between.