We introduce a method for providing lightweight daemons, called simplifiers, that attach themselves to program data. If a data item has a simplifier, the simplifier may be run aut...
Automatic memory management or garbage collection greatly simplifies development of large systems. However, garbage collection is usually not used in real-time systems due to the u...
The IA-64, Intel's 64-bit instruction set architecture, exhibits a number of interesting architectural features. Here we consider those features as they relate to supporting ...
Richard L. Hudson, J. Eliot B. Moss, Sreenivas Sub...
Efficient data indexing is significant to embedded devices, because both CPU cycles and energy are very precious resources. Soft lists, a new index structure for embedded devices w...
The progress towards programming methodologies that simplify the work of the programmer involves automating, whenever possible, activities that are secondary to the main task of d...