Device drivers are notorious for being a major source of failure in operating systems. In analysing a sample of real defects in Linux drivers, we found that a large proportion (39...
Leonid Ryzhyk, Peter Chubb, Ihor Kuz, Gernot Heise...
—Performance degradation of memory-intensive programs caused by the LRU policy’s inability to handle weaklocality data accesses in the last level cache is increasingly serious ...
Various online studies on the prevalence of spyware attest overwhelming numbers (up to 80%) of infected home computers. However, the term spyware is ambiguous and can refer to anyt...
Andreas Stamminger, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni ...
Software has spent the bounty of Moore’s law by solving harder problems and exploiting abstractions, such as highlevel languages, virtual machine technology, binary rewritdynami...
Jungwoo Ha, Matthew Arnold, Stephen M. Blackburn, ...
Java performance is far from being trivial to benchmark because it is affected by various factors such as the Java application, its input, the virtual machine, the garbage collect...