Applications that process complex inputs often react in different ways to changes in different regions of the input. Small changes to forgiving regions induce correspondingly smal...
As we reach the limits of single-core computing, we are promised more and more cores in our systems. Modern architectures include many performance counters per core, but few or no...
Paul E. West, Yuval Peress, Gary S. Tyson, Sally A...
A number of effective error detection tools have been built in recent years to check if a program conforms to certain design rules. An important class of design rules deals with s...
Michael C. Martin, V. Benjamin Livshits, Monica S....
We propose a low-overhead sampling infrastructure for gathering information from the executions experienced by a program’s user community. Several example applications illustrat...
Ben Liblit, Alexander Aiken, Alice X. Zheng, Micha...
Many opportunities for easy, big-win, program optimizations are missed by compilers. This is especially true in highly layered Java applications. Often at the heart of these misse...
Guoqing Xu, Nick Mitchell, Matthew Arnold, Atanas ...