Instruction combining is an optimization to replace a sequence of instructions with a more efficient instruction yielding the same result in a fewer machine cycles. When we use it...
—Concurrent programming with shared memory in an object-oriented language such as Java is notoriously difficult. Therefore, it is important to study new program understanding te...
Abstract. In an interpreted execution there is an interdependence between the interpreter's execution and the interpreted application's execution; the implementation of t...
Abstract. In earlier work, we developed a technique to prove termination of Java programs automatically: first, Java programs are automatically transformed to term rewrite systems...
Marc Brockschmidt, Richard Musiol, Carsten Otto, J...
We report on a continuing study into teaching programming to pre-teens school-children, with some as young as seven years old. As part of the study we aim to test childrens’ alg...