The emergence of multicore processors has heightened the need for effective parallel programming practices. In addition to writing new parallel programs, the next generation of pr...
William Thies, Vikram Chandrasekhar, Saman P. Amar...
This paper describes and evaluates the profile-based optimizations in the Compaq C compiler tool chain for Alpha. The optimizations include superblock formation, inlining, command...
This paper describes LCLint, an efficient and flexible tool that accepts as input programs (written in ANSI C) and various levels of formal specification. Using this information, ...
David Evans, John V. Guttag, James J. Horning, Yan...
A large portion of the software used in industry today is legacy software. Legacy systems often evolve into dicult to maintain systems whose original design has been lost or else ...
Reverse engineering of program code is the process of constructing a higher level abstraction of an implementation in order to facilitate the understanding of a system that may be...