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OOPSLA
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Practical predicate dispatch
Predicate dispatch is an object-oriented (OO) language mechanism for determining the method implementation to be invoked upon a message send. With predicate dispatch, each method ...
Todd D. Millstein
PLDI
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Checking and inferring local non-aliasing
In prior work [15] we studied a language construct restrict that allows programmers to specify that certain pointers are not aliased to other pointers used within a lexical scope....
Alexander Aiken, Jeffrey S. Foster, John Kodumal, ...
SIGMETRICS
1998
ACM
187views Hardware» more  SIGMETRICS 1998»
14 years 1 months ago
An Analytic Behavior Model for Disk Drives with Readahead Caches and Request Reordering
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Hardware counter driven on-the-fly request signatures
Today's processors provide a rich source of statistical information on application execution through hardware counters. In this paper, we explore the utilization of these sta...
Kai Shen, Ming Zhong, Sandhya Dwarkadas, Chuanpeng...
CF
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
A distributed evolutionary method to design scheduling policies for volunteer computing
Volunteer Computing (VC) is a paradigm that takes advantage of idle cycles from computing resources donated by volunteers and connected through the Internet to compute large-scale...
Trilce Estrada, Olac Fuentes, Michela Taufer