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ASAP
2007
IEEE
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An Efficient Hardware Support for Control Data Validation
Software-based, fine-grain control flow integrity (CFI) validation technique has been proposed to enforce control flow integrity of program execution. By validating every indirect...
Yong-Joon Park, Zhao Zhang, Gyungho Lee
PLDI
2003
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Optimizing indirect branch prediction accuracy in virtual machine interpreters
Interpreters designed for efficiency execute a huge number of indirect branches and can spend more than half of the execution time in indirect branch mispredictions. Branch target...
M. Anton Ertl, David Gregg
ISCA
2007
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
VPC prediction: reducing the cost of indirect branches via hardware-based dynamic devirtualization
Indirect branches have become increasingly common in modular programs written in modern object-oriented languages and virtualmachine based runtime systems. Unfortunately, the pred...
Hyesoon Kim, José A. Joao, Onur Mutlu, Chan...
CGO
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Evaluating Indirect Branch Handling Mechanisms in Software Dynamic Translation Systems
Software Dynamic Translation (SDT) systems are used for program instrumentation, dynamic optimization, security, intrusion detection, and many other uses. As noted by many researc...
Jason Hiser, Daniel Williams, Wei Hu, Jack W. Davi...