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SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Scalable reader-writer locks
We present three new reader-writer lock algorithms that scale under high read-only contention. Many previous reader-writer locks suffer significant degradation when many readers a...
Yossi Lev, Victor Luchangco, Marek Olszewski
SPAA
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Beyond nested parallelism: tight bounds on work-stealing overheads for parallel futures
Work stealing is a popular method of scheduling fine-grained parallel tasks. The performance of work stealing has been extensively studied, both theoretically and empirically, but...
Daniel Spoonhower, Guy E. Blelloch, Phillip B. Gib...
CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Developing user interface guidelines for DVD menus
Watching DVDs can be a frustrating experience, because DVD menus often miss out on usability and are complex and difficult to navigate through. Similar to the early years of web d...
Karin Kappel, Martin Tomitsch, Thomas Grechenig, T...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
WinCuts: manipulating arbitrary window regions for more effective use of screen space
Each window on our computer desktop provides a view into some information. Although users can currently manipulate multiple windows, we assert that being able to spatially arrange...
Desney S. Tan, Brian Meyers, Mary Czerwinski
POPL
2008
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
Foundations for structured programming with GADTs
GADTs are at the cutting edge of functional programming and become more widely used every day. Nevertheless, the semantic foundations underlying GADTs are not well understood. In ...
Patricia Johann, Neil Ghani