In this paper we evaluate the atomic region compiler abstraction by incorporating it into a commercial system. We find that atomic regions are simple and intuitive to integrate i...
Naveen Neelakantam, David R. Ditzel, Craig B. Zill...
Concurrency bugs are among the most difficult to test and diagnose of all software bugs. The multicore technology trend worsens this problem. Most previous concurrency bug detect...
In order to generate high-quality code for modern processors, a compiler must aggressively schedule instructions, maximizing resource utilization for execution efficiency. For a ...
Matthew J. Bridges, Neil Vachharajani, Guilherme O...
Virtual machines (VMs) are commonly used to distribute programs in an architecture-neutral format, which can easily be interpreted or compiled. A long-running question in the desi...
Yunhe Shi, David Gregg, Andrew Beatty, M. Anton Er...
It is now well established that the device scaling predicted by Moore’s Law is no longer a viable option for increasing the clock frequency of future uniprocessor systems at the...
Philippe Charles, Christian Grothoff, Vijay A. Sar...