— During codesign of a system, one still runs into the impedance mismatch between the software and hardware worlds. er identifies the different levels of abstraction of hardware...
Philippe Faes, Mark Christiaens, Dries Buytaert, D...
As improvements in processor speed continue to outpace improvements in cache and memory speed, poor locality increasingly degrades performance. Because copying garbage collectors ...
Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. ...
We introduce a method for providing lightweight daemons, called simplifiers, that attach themselves to program data. If a data item has a simplifier, the simplifier may be run aut...
To achieve optimal performance, garbage-collected applications must balance the sizes of their heaps dynamically. Sizing the heap too small can reduce throughput by increasing the...
Matthew Hertz, Stephen Kane, Elizabeth Keudel, Ton...
Memory managers are an important part of any modern language: they are used to dynamically allocate memory for use in the program. Many managers exist and depending on the operati...
Yves Younan, Wouter Joosen, Frank Piessens, Hans V...