I need a programmer

I have a project in mind that you can try to complete within one wwek. In some of my research I need to perform analysis of all kinds of branch instructions executed on systems under normal activity. One example how this data can be used is when we suggest some new branch predictor designs we would like to have realistic branch traces to accurately estimate performance overhead. Traditionally people just use some benchmark suites such as SPEC2006 and run them only on simulators. However, such setting takes away the effect of frequent context switches, interrupts and other normal system activity. Because of that I was thinking about developing a simple tool that can allow us to record all branch traces under realistic workloads, for example browsing, interactive apps, etc. I was thinking to utilize QEMU emulator for that purpose. It supports full system emulation mode. You can read more here: [login to view URL]~tege/[login to view URL] So, if you could dig into code and find a place where instructions are interpreted and add code that records basic information about branch instructions, saves it into some buffer and periodically dumps all data into a file, that would be a great first step. This will need to be able to handle outputs of large size, because in normal code about every 7th instruction is a branch instruction. All kinds of banches must be recorded. This includes direct jumps, conditional branches and indirect branches. We are interested in x86_64 platform.