In a multi-programmed computing environment, threads of execution exhibit different runtime characteristics and hardware resource requirements. Not only do the behaviors of distin...
When integrating software threads together to boost performance on a processor with instruction-level parallel processing support, it is rarely clear which code regions should be ...
Parallelism is one of the main sources for performance improvement in modern computing environment, but the efficient exploitation of the available parallelism depends on a number ...
Dynamic instrumentation systems have proven to be extremely valuable for program introspection, architectural simulation, and bug detection. Yet a major drawback of modern instrum...
Dataflow programming has proven to be popular for representing applications in rapid prototyping tools for digital signal processing (DSP); however, existing dataflow design tools...