: Before any of the current “agile” development methods, Earned Value Management provided information for planning and controlling complex projects by measuring how much “val...
Dynamic optimization is emerging as a promising approach to overcome many of the obstacles of traditional static compilation. But while there are a number of compiler infrastructu...
Derek Bruening, Timothy Garnett, Saman P. Amarasin...
Predicated execution enables the removal of branches wherein segments of branching code are converted into straight-line segments of conditional operations. An important, but gene...
Mikhail Smelyanskiy, Scott A. Mahlke, Edward S. Da...
Modern processors perform dynamic scheduling to achieve better utilization of execution resources. A schedule created at run-time is often better than one created at compile-time ...
Francesco Spadini, Brian Fahs, Sanjay J. Patel, St...
When performing a program evolution task, developers typically spend a significant amount of effort investigating and re-investigating source code. To reduce this effort, we prop...