Hardware transactional memory should support unbounded transactions: transactions of arbitrary size and duration. We describe a hardware implementation of unbounded transactional ...
C. Scott Ananian, Krste Asanovic, Bradley C. Kuszm...
The programming and retasking of sensor nodes could benefit greatly from the use of a virtual machine (VM) since byte code is compact, can be loaded on demand, and interpreted on...
Interpreted languages have become increasingly popular due to demands for rapid program development, ease of use, portability, and safety. Beyond the general impression that they ...
Theodore H. Romer, Dennis Lee, Geoffrey M. Voelker...
This paper explores and quantifies garbage collection behavior for three whole heap collectors and generational counterparts: copying semi-space, mark-sweep, and reference counti...
Stephen M. Blackburn, Perry Cheng, Kathryn S. McKi...
One purpose of the end-user tools described in this paper is to give users a graphical representation of performance information that has been gathered by instrumenting an applica...
Kevin S. London, Jack Dongarra, Shirley Moore, Phi...