Testing an SQL database system by running large sets of deterministic or stochastic SQL statements is common practice in commercial database development. However, code defects oft...
The computer industry is currently examining the use of strong synchronization operations such as double compareand-swap (DCAS) as a means of supporting non-blocking synchronizati...
Ole Agesen, David Detlefs, Christine H. Flood, Ale...
Scheduling time impact on system performance increases especially when using dynamic priority algorithms, because of the enlarged computational effort at runtime. This overhead ca...
Jens Hildebrandt, Frank Golatowski, Dirk Timmerman...
Control independence has been put forward as a significant new source of instruction-level parallelism for future generation processors. However, its performance potential under p...
Interactive rendering requires rapid visual feedback. The render cache is a new method for achieving this when using high-quality pixel-oriented renderers such as ray tracing that...