The existing thread scheduler in FreeBSD was well suited towards the computing environment that it was developed in. As the priorities and hardware targets of the project have cha...
Historically, compilers have operated by applying a fixed set of optimizations in a predetermined order. We call such an ordered list of optimizations a compilation sequence. This...
Keith D. Cooper, Devika Subramanian, Linda Torczon
In this chapter, we discuss a widely used fault-tolerant data replication model called virtual synchrony. The model responds to two kinds of needs. First, there is the practical qu...
High-level languages are growing in popularity. However, decades of C software development have produced large libraries of fast, timetested, meritorious code that are impractical...
Tristan Ravitch, Steve Jackson, Eric Aderhold, Ben...
Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors ...