In the past decade, processor speed has become significantly faster than memory speed. Small, fast cache memories are designed to overcome this discrepancy, but they are only effe...
In some hypermedia system applications, like interactive digital TV applications, authoring and presentation of documents may have to be done concomitantly. This is the case of li...
Languages such as Java, ML, Scheme, and Haskell provide automatic storage management, that is, garbage collection. The two fundamental operations performed on a garbagecollected h...
As computational power increases, tele-immersive applications are an emerging trend. These applications make extensive demands on computational resources through their heavy use o...
Albert Sidelnik, I-Jui Sung, Wanmin Wu, Marí...
The file I/O classes present in Java have proven too inefficient to meet the demands of high-performance applications that perform large amounts of I/O. The inefficiencies stem pr...