Modern programs frequently employ sophisticated modular designs. As a result, performance problems cannot be identified from costs attributed to routines in isolation; understand...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Michael...
Many general-purpose, object-oriented scripting languages are dynamically typed, to keep the language flexible and not reject any programs unnecessarily. However, dynamic typing ...
Michael Furr, Jong-hoon (David) An, Jeffrey S. Fos...
Column-stores gained popularity as a promising physical design alternative. Each attribute of a relation is physically stored as a separate column allowing queries to load only th...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
—Wireless sensor networks have become a promising technology in monitoring physical world. In many applications with wireless sensor networks, it is essential to understand how w...
Min Xi, Kui Wu, Yong Qi, Jizhong Zhao, Yunhao Liu,...
Memory-intensive threads can hoard shared resources without making progress on a multithreading processor (SMT), thereby hindering the overall system performance. A recent promisi...