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SPE
1998
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13 years 8 months ago
Timing Trials, or the Trials of Timing: Experiments with Scripting and User-Interface Languages
This paper describes some basic experiments to see how fast various popular scripting and user-interface languages run on a spectrum of representative tasks. We found enormous var...
Brian W. Kernighan, Christopher J. Van Wyk
CASES
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Balancing memory and performance through selective flushing of software code caches
Dynamic binary translators (DBTs) are becoming increasingly important because of their power and flexibility. However, the high memory demands of DBTs present an obstacle for all ...
Apala Guha, Kim M. Hazelwood, Mary Lou Soffa
SCP
2010
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13 years 3 months ago
Compact and efficient strings for Java
In several Java VMs, strings consist of two separate objects: metadata such as the string length are stored in the actual string object, while the string characters are stored in ...
Christian Häubl, Christian Wimmer, Hanspeter ...
ASPLOS
2011
ACM
13 years 6 days ago
NV-Heaps: making persistent objects fast and safe with next-generation, non-volatile memories
nt, user-defined objects present an attractive abstraction for working with non-volatile program state. However, the slow speed of persistent storage (i.e., disk) has restricted ...
Joel Coburn, Adrian M. Caulfield, Ameen Akel, Laur...
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 11 months ago
Language-independent sandboxing of just-in-time compilation and self-modifying code
When dealing with dynamic, untrusted content, such as on the Web, software behavior must be sandboxed, typically through use of a language like JavaScript. However, even for such ...
Jason Ansel, Petr Marchenko, Úlfar Erlingss...