Performance of applications can be boosted by executing application-specific Instruction Set Extensions (ISEs) on a specialized hardware coupled with a processor core. Many commer...
Partha Biswas, Sudarshan Banerjee, Nikil D. Dutt, ...
Although engineering models of user behavior have enjoyed a rich history in HCI, they have yet to have a widespread impact due to the complexities of the modeling process. In this...
Bonnie E. John, Konstantine C. Prevas, Dario D. Sa...
We introduce lock allocation, an automatic technique that takes a multi-threaded program annotated with atomic sections (that must be executed atomically), and infers a lock assig...
Michael Emmi, Jeffrey S. Fischer, Ranjit Jhala, Ru...
This paper proposes a novel approach to shape analysis: using local reasoning about individual heap locations of global reasoning about entire heap abstractions. We present an int...
Some compilation systems, such as offline partial evaluators and selective dynamic compilation systems, support staged optimizations. A staged optimization is one where a logicall...
Matthai Philipose, Craig Chambers, Susan J. Eggers