Pointer bugs associated with dynamically-allocated objects resulting in out-of-bounds memory access are an important class of software bugs. Because such bugs cannot be detected e...
Jin-Yi Wang, Yen-Shiang Shue, T. N. Vijaykumar, Sa...
To achieve high instruction throughput, instruction schedulers must be capable of producing high-quality schedules that maximize functional unit utilization while at the same time...
Data prefetching effectively reduces the negative effects of long load latencies on the performance of modern processors. Hardware prefetchers employ hardware structures to predic...
Jamison D. Collins, Suleyman Sair, Brad Calder, De...
Providing deterministic execution significantly simplifies the debugging, testing, replication, and deployment of multithreaded programs. Recent work has developed deterministic...
Joseph Devietti, Jacob Nelson, Tom Bergan, Luis Ce...
Chip-multiprocessors are quickly becoming popular in embedded systems. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithreaded appli...
Njuguna Njoroge, Jared Casper, Sewook Wee, Yuriy T...