In prior work [15] we studied a language construct restrict that allows programmers to specify that certain pointers are not aliased to other pointers used within a lexical scope....
Alexander Aiken, Jeffrey S. Foster, John Kodumal, ...
CCured is a program transformation system that adds memory safety guarantees to C programs by verifying statically that memory errors cannot occur and by inserting run-time checks...
Jeremy Condit, Matthew Harren, Scott McPeak, Georg...
Speculative execution, such as control speculation and data speculation, is an effective way to improve program performance. Using edge/path profile information or simple heuristi...
Jin Lin, Tong Chen, Wei-Chung Hsu, Pen-Chung Yew, ...
Compiler writers have crafted many heuristics over the years to approximately solve NP-hard problems efficiently. Finding a heuristic that performs well on a broad range of applic...
Mark Stephenson, Saman P. Amarasinghe, Martin C. M...
Empirical program optimizers estimate the values of key optimization parameters by generating different program versions and running them on the actual hardware to determine which...
Kamen Yotov, Xiaoming Li, Gang Ren, Michael Cibuls...