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TC
2011
15 years 1 months ago
Performing Arithmetic Operations on Round-to-Nearest Representations
—During any composite computation, there is a constant need for rounding intermediate results before they can participate in further processing. Recently, a class of number repre...
Peter Kornerup, Jean-Michel Muller, Adrien Panhale...
ISCA
2003
IEEE
110views Hardware» more  ISCA 2003»
15 years 11 months ago
Guided Region Prefetching: A Cooperative Hardware/Software Approach
Despite large caches, main-memory access latencies still cause significant performance losses in many applications. Numerous hardware and software prefetching schemes tolerate th...
Zhenlin Wang, Doug Burger, Steven K. Reinhardt, Ka...
KBSE
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Automated program repair through the evolution of assembly code
A method is described for automatically repairing legacy software at the assembly code level using evolutionary computation. The technique is demonstrated on Java byte code and x8...
Eric Schulte, Stephanie Forrest, Westley Weimer
CGO
2005
IEEE
16 years 2 days ago
Reactive Techniques for Controlling Software Speculation
Aggressive software speculation holds significant potential, because it enables program transformations to reduce the program’s critical path. Like any form of speculation, how...
Craig B. Zilles, Naveen Neelakantam
ATAL
2005
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Comprehending agent software
Software comprehension (understanding software structure and behavior) is essential for developing, maintaining, and improving software. This is particularly true of agent-based s...
Dung N. Lam, K. Suzanne Barber