PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
A daunting challenge faced by program performance autotuning is input sensitivity, where the best autotuned configuration may vary with different input sets. This paper presents ...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
Read-Copy-Update (RCU) is a technique for letting multiple readers safely access a data structure while a writer concurrently modifies it. It is used heavily in the Linux kernel ...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
User-facing online services utilize geo-distributed data stores to minimize latency and tolerate partial failures, with the intention to provide a fast, always-on experience. Howe...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
With hundreds of millions of users, spreadsheets are one of the most important end-user applications. Spreadsheets are easy to use and allow users great flexibility in storing da...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
Despite decades of research on parsing, the construction of parsers remains a painstaking, manual process prone to subtle bugs and pitfalls. We present a programming-by-example fr...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
We present PIDGIN, a program analysis and understanding tool that enables the specification and enforcement of precise applicationspecific information security guarantees. PIDGI...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
Compiler scalability is a well known problem: reasoning about the application of useful optimizations over large program scopes consumes too much time and memory during compilatio...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
This paper identifies and formalizes a prevalent class of asymptotic performance bugs called redundant traversal bugs and presents a novel static analysis for automatically detec...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
Type inference engines often give terrible error messages, and the more sophisticated the type system the worse the problem. We show that even with the highly expressive type syst...
PLDI
2015
ACM
8 years 7 months ago
2015
ACM
We develop a new framework for analyzing recursive methods that perform traversals over trees, called tree dependence analysis. This analysis translates dependence analysis techni...