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HPCA
2003
IEEE
16 years 6 months ago
TCP: Tag Correlating Prefetchers
Although caches for decades have been the backbone of the memory system, the speed gap between CPU and main memory suggests their augmentation with prefetching mechanisms. Recentl...
Zhigang Hu, Margaret Martonosi, Stefanos Kaxiras
POPL
2008
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Generating precise and concise procedure summaries
We present a framework for generating procedure summaries that are precise -- applying the summary in a given context yields the same result as re-analyzing the procedure in that ...
Greta Yorsh, Eran Yahav, Satish Chandra
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
136views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
A Characterization of the Sensitivity of Query Optimization to Storage Access Cost Parameters
Most relational query optimizers make use of information about the costs of accessing tuples and data structures on various storage devices. This information can at times be off b...
Frederick Reiss, Tapas Kanungo
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
175views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
WinMagic : Subquery Elimination Using Window Aggregation
Database queries often take the form of correlated SQL queries. Correlation refers to the use of values from the outer query block to compute the inner subquery. This is a conveni...
Calisto Zuzarte, Hamid Pirahesh, Wenbin Ma, Qi Che...
PODS
2005
ACM
151views Database» more  PODS 2005»
16 years 6 months ago
Estimating arbitrary subset sums with few probes
Suppose we have a large table T of items i, each with a weight wi, e.g., people and their salary. In a general preprocessing step for estimating arbitrary subset sums, we assign e...
Noga Alon, Nick G. Duffield, Carsten Lund, Mikkel ...