The performance of virtual machines (e.g., Java Virtual Machines—JVMs) can be significantly improved when critical code sections (e.g., Java bytecode methods) are migrated from...
Miljan Vuletic, Christophe Dubach, Laura Pozzi, Pa...
This paper introduces a method for improving program run-time performance by gathering work in an application and executing it efficiently in an integrated thread. Our methods ext...
This paper proposes a hardware transactional memory (HTM) system called LogTM Signature Edition (LogTM-SE). LogTM-SE uses signatures to summarize a transaction's readand writ...
Luke Yen, Jayaram Bobba, Michael R. Marty, Kevin E...
There has been considerable recent interest in the support of transactional memory (TM) in both hardware and software. We present an intermediate approach, in which hardware is us...
Arrvindh Shriraman, Michael F. Spear, Hemayet Hoss...
Abstract--Many shared-memory parallel systems use lockbased synchronization mechanisms to provide mutual exclusion or reader-writer access to memory locations. Software locks are i...