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USENIX
1996
13 years 10 months ago
A Comparison of OS Extension Technologies
The current trend in operating systems research is to allow applications to dynamically extend the kernel to improve application performance or extend functionality, but the most ...
Christopher Small, Margo I. Seltzer
ISLPED
2004
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Eliminating voltage emergencies via microarchitectural voltage control feedback and dynamic optimization
Microprocessor designers use techniques such as clock gating to reduce power dissipation. An unfortunate side-effect of these techniques is the processor current fluctuations th...
Kim M. Hazelwood, David Brooks
EMSOFT
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
High performance annotation-aware JVM for Java cards
Early applications of smart cards have focused in the area of personal security. Recently, there has been an increasing demand for networked, multi-application cards. In this new ...
Ana Azevedo, Arun Kejariwal, Alexander V. Veidenba...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
LiteRace: effective sampling for lightweight data-race detection
Data races are one of the most common and subtle causes of pernicious concurrency bugs. Static techniques for preventing data races are overly conservative and do not scale well t...
Daniel Marino, Madanlal Musuvathi, Satish Narayana...
OOPSLA
2004
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
The garbage collection advantage: improving program locality
As improvements in processor speed continue to outpace improvements in cache and memory speed, poor locality increasingly degrades performance. Because copying garbage collectors ...
Xianglong Huang, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. ...