Modern architectures, such as the Intel Itanium, support speculation, a hardware mechanism that allows the early execution of expensive operations—possibly even before it is kno...
Noah Snavely, Saumya K. Debray, Gregory R. Andrews
Distributed database design is a complex process that involves a set of distinct aspects for the accomplishment of an adequate data distribution (Buretta 1997). Many of these aspec...
Software engineering (SE) truisms capture broadlyapplicable principles of software construction. The trouble with truisms is that such general principles may not apply in specifi...
Tim Menzies, David Raffo, Siri-on Setamanit, Ying ...
The feature list of modern IDEs is steadily growing and mastering these tools becomes more and more demanding, especially for novice programmers. Despite their remarkable capabili...
Dedicated operating systems for embedded systems are fast being phased out due to their use of manual optimization, which provides high performance and small footprint, but also r...