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ECOOP
2009
Springer
16 years 7 months ago
Making Sense of Large Heaps
Abstract. It is common for large-scale Java applications to suffer memory problems, whether inefficient designs that impede scalability, or lifetime bugs such as leaks. Making sens...
Nick Mitchell, Edith Schonberg, Gary Sevitsky
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
189views Education» more  SIGCSE 2009»
16 years 7 months ago
QuickDraw: bringing graphics into first year
This paper describes a new tool for introducing computer graphics and multimedia applications into first year, called QuickDraw, and our experience using it. QuickDraw provides an...
Ben Stephenson, Craig Taube-Schock
VL
2008
IEEE
138views Visual Languages» more  VL 2008»
16 years 27 days ago
A case study of API redesign for improved usability
As software grows more complex, software developers’ productivity is increasingly defined by their ability to effectively reuse code. Even APIs (application programming interfac...
Jeffrey Stylos, Benjamin Graf, Daniela K. Busse, C...
IEEEPACT
2006
IEEE
16 years 17 days ago
Whole-program optimization of global variable layout
On machines with high-performance processors, the memory system continues to be a performance bottleneck. Compilers insert prefetch operations and reorder data accesses to improve...
Nathaniel McIntosh, Sandya Mannarswamy, Robert Hun...
PLDI
2005
ACM
16 years 2 days ago
Mitosis compiler: an infrastructure for speculative threading based on pre-computation slices
Speculative parallelization can provide significant sources of additional thread-level parallelism, especially for irregular applications that are hard to parallelize by conventio...
Carlos García Quiñones, Carlos Madri...