With the constant advances in technology that lead to the increasing of the transistor count and processor frequency, power dissipation is becoming one of the major issues in high...
A platform that supported Sequential Consistency (SC) for all codes — not only the well-synchronized ones — would simplify the task of programmers. Recently, several hardware ...
Wonsun Ahn, Shanxiang Qi, M. Nicolaides, Josep Tor...
Lazy programs are beautiful, but they are slow because they build many thunks. Simple measurements show that most of these thunks are unnecessary: they are in fact always evaluate...
Java exception checks are designed to ensure that any faulting instruction causing a hardware exception does not terminate the program abnormally. These checks, however, impose so...