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PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Permission-based ownership: encapsulating state in higher-order typed languages
Today’s module systems do not effectively support information hiding in the presence of shared mutable objects, causing serious problems in the development and evolution of larg...
Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, Jonathan Aldrich
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Code placement for improving dynamic branch prediction accuracy
Code placement techniques have traditionally improved instruction fetch bandwidth by increasing instruction locality and decreasing the number of taken branches. However, traditio...
Daniel A. Jiménez
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Path slicing
We present a new technique, path slicing, that takes as input a possibly infeasible path to a target location, and eliminates all the operations that are irrelevant towards the re...
Ranjit Jhala, Rupak Majumdar
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Garbage collection without paging
Garbage collection offers numerous software engineering advantages, but interacts poorly with virtual memory managers. Existing garbage collectors require far more pages than the ...
Matthew Hertz, Yi Feng, Emery D. Berger
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
DART: directed automated random testing
We present a new tool, named DART, for automatically testing software that combines three main techniques: (1) automated extraction of the interface of a program with its external...
Patrice Godefroid, Nils Klarlund, Koushik Sen
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Checking type safety of foreign function calls
We present a multi-lingual type inference system for checking type safety across a foreign function interface. The goal of our system is to prevent foreign function calls from int...
Michael Furr, Jeffrey S. Foster
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Formal loop merging for signal transforms
A critical optimization in the domain of linear signal transforms, such as the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), is loop merging, which increases data locality and reuse and thus ...
Franz Franchetti, Yevgen Voronenko, Markus Pü...
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Composing security policies with polymer
We introduce a language and system that supports definition and composition of complex run-time security policies for Java applications. Our policies are comprised of two sorts o...
Lujo Bauer, Jay Ligatti, David Walker
PLDI
2005
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
TraceBack: first fault diagnosis by reconstruction of distributed control flow
Faults that occur in production systems are the most important faults to fix, but most production systems lack the debugging facilities present in development environments. TraceB...
Andrew Ayers, Richard Schooler, Chris Metcalf, Ana...