The support for precise exceptions in Java, combined with frequent checks for runtime exceptions, leads to severe limitations on the compiler’s ability to perform program optimiz...
The C programming language is at least as well known for its absence of spatial memory safety guarantees (i.e., lack of bounds checking) as it is for its high performance. C'...
Joe Devietti, Colin Blundell, Milo M. K. Martin, S...
We describe the implementation of an out-of-core, distribution-based sorting program on a cluster using FG, a multithreaded programming framework. FG mitigates latency from disk-I/...
Priya Natarajan, Thomas H. Cormen, Elena Riccio St...
—Multicore nodes have become ubiquitous in just a few years. At the same time, writing portable parallel software for multicore nodes is extremely challenging. Widely available p...
Christopher G. Baker, Michael A. Heroux, H. Carter...
As improvements in processor speed continue to outpace improvements in cache and memory speed, poor locality increasingly degrades performance. Because copying garbage collectors ...
Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. ...