Many state-of-the-art garbage collectors are generational, collecting the young nursery objects more frequently than old objects. These collectors perform well because young objec...
Maria Jump, Stephen M. Blackburn, Kathryn S. McKin...
The negative performance impact of branch mis-predictions can be reduced by exploiting control independence (CI). When a branch mis-predicts, the wrong-path instructions up to the...
Dynamically reconfigurable systems based on partial and dynamically reconfigurable FPGAs may have their functionality partially modified at run-time without stopping the operation...
Manuel G. Gericota, Gustavo R. Alves, Miguel L. Si...
In a single second a modern processor can execute billions of instructions. Obtaining a bird’s eye view of the behavior of a program at these speeds can be a difficult task whe...
Caches have become invaluable for higher-end architectures to hide, in part, the increasing gap between processor speed and memory access times. While the effect of caches on timi...