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USENIX
2003
13 years 9 months ago
Operating System I/O Speculation: How Two Invocations Are Faster Than One
We present an in-kernel disk prefetcher which uses speculative execution to determine what data an application is likely to require in the near future. By placing our design withi...
Keir Faser, Fay Chang
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
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14 years 7 months ago
FlashLogging: exploiting flash devices for synchronous logging performance
Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
Shimin Chen
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Semi-automating small-scale source code reuse via structural correspondence
Developers perform small-scale reuse tasks to save time and to increase the quality of their code, but due to their small scale, the costs of such tasks can quickly outweigh their...
Rylan Cottrell, Robert J. Walker, Jörg Denzin...
CHI
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Making sense of strangers' expertise from signals in digital artifacts
Contemporary work increasingly involves interacting with strangers in technology-mediated environments. In this context, we come to rely on digital artifacts to infer characterist...
N. Sadat Shami, Kate Ehrlich, Geri Gay, Jeffrey T....
VSTTE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Implications of a Data Structure Consistency Checking System
Abstract. We present a framework for verifying that programs correctly preserve important data structure consistency properties. Results from our implemented system indicate that o...
Viktor Kuncak, Patrick Lam, Karen Zee, Martin C. R...