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CGO
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Latency-tolerant software pipelining in a production compiler
In this paper we investigate the benefit of scheduling non-critical loads for a higher latency during software pipelining. "Noncritical" denotes those loads that have s...
Sebastian Winkel, Rakesh Krishnaiyer, Robyn Sampso...
CGO
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fast liveness checking for ssa-form programs
Liveness analysis is an important analysis in optimizing compilers. Liveness information is used in several optimizations and is mandatory during the code-generation phase. Two dr...
Benoit Boissinot, Sebastian Hack, Daniel Grund, Be...
CGO
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Branch-on-random
We propose a new instruction, branch-on-random, that is like a standard conditional branch, except rather than specifying the condition on which the branch should be taken, it spe...
Edward Lee, Craig B. Zilles
CGO
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Parallel-stage decoupled software pipelining
In recent years, the microprocessor industry has embraced chip multiprocessors (CMPs), also known as multi-core architectures, as the dominant design paradigm. For existing and ne...
Easwaran Raman, Guilherme Ottoni, Arun Raman, Matt...
CEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
A novel co-evolutionary approach to automatic software bug fixing
— Many tasks in Software Engineering are very expensive, and that has led the investigation to how to automate them. In particular, Software Testing can take up to half of the re...
Andrea Arcuri, Xin Yao
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Empirical Study of Evolution of Inheritance in Java OSS
Previous studies of Object-Oriented (OO) software have reported avoidance of the inheritance mechanism and cast doubt on the wisdom of ‘deep’ inheritance levels. From an evolu...
Emal Nasseri, Steve Counsell, M. Shepperd
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Software Metrics for Agile Software Development
Agile Software Development Methods are nowadays wide spread and accepted. From the Software Measurement point-of-view not all metrics and methods from conventional lifecycle model...
Martin Kunz, Reiner R. Dumke, Niko Zenker
ASWEC
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Exploration of Power-Law in Use-Relation of Java Software Systems
A software component graph, where a node represents a component and an edge represents a use-relation between components, is widely used for analysis methods of software engineeri...
Makoto Ichii, Makoto Matsushita, Katsuro Inoue