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PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Trace-based just-in-time type specialization for dynamic languages
Dynamic languages such as JavaScript are more difficult to compile than statically typed ones. Since no concrete type information is available, traditional compilers need to emit...
Andreas Gal, Brendan Eich, Mike Shaver, David Ande...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Proving optimizations correct using parameterized program equivalence
Translation validation is a technique for checking that, after an optimization has run, the input and output of the optimization are equivalent. Traditionally, translation validat...
Sudipta Kundu, Zachary Tatlock, Sorin Lerner
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Error propagation analysis for file systems
Unchecked errors are especially pernicious in operating system file management code. Transient or permanent hardware failures are inevitable, and error-management bugs at the fi...
Cindy Rubio-González, Haryadi S. Gunawi, Be...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Binary analysis for measurement and attribution of program performance
Modern programs frequently employ sophisticated modular designs. As a result, performance problems cannot be identified from costs attributed to routines in isolation; understand...
Nathan R. Tallent, John M. Mellor-Crummey, Michael...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
CEAL: a C-based language for self-adjusting computation
Matthew Hammer, Umut A. Acar, Yan Chen
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Typed self-representation
Self-representation – the ability to represent programs in their own language – has important applications in reflective languages and many other domains of programming langu...
Tillmann Rendel, Klaus Ostermann, Christian Hofer
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Programming model for a heterogeneous x86 platform
The client computing platform is moving towards a heterogeneous architecture consisting of a combination of cores focused on scalar performance, and a set of throughput-oriented c...
Bratin Saha, Xiaocheng Zhou, Hu Chen, Ying Gao, Sh...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Dynamic software updates: a VM-centric approach
Software evolves to fix bugs and add features. Stopping and restarting programs to apply changes is inconvenient and often costly. Dynamic software updating (DSU) addresses this ...
Suriya Subramanian, Michael W. Hicks, Kathryn S. M...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
TAJ: effective taint analysis of web applications
Taint analysis, a form of information-flow analysis, establishes whether values from untrusted methods and parameters may flow into security-sensitive operations. Taint analysis...
Omer Tripp, Marco Pistoia, Stephen J. Fink, Manu S...
PLDI
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Snugglebug: a powerful approach to weakest preconditions
Symbolic analysis shows promise as a foundation for bug-finding, specification inference, verification, and test generation. This paper addresses demand-driven symbolic analysi...
Satish Chandra, Stephen J. Fink, Manu Sridharan