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CACM
2011
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Why STM can be more than a research toy
Software Transactional Memory (STM) promises to simplify concurrent programming without requiring specific hardware support. Yet, STM’s credibility lies on the extent to which ...
Aleksandar Dragojevic, Pascal Felber, Vincent Gram...
DIMVA
2008
14 years 27 days ago
On Race Vulnerabilities in Web Applications
Abstract A web programmer often conceives its application as a sequential entity, thus neglecting the parallel nature of the underlying execution environment. In this environment, ...
Roberto Paleari, Davide Marrone, Danilo Bruschi, M...
LCTRTS
2004
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Generating fast code from concurrent program dependence graphs
While concurrency in embedded systems is most often supplied by real-time operating systems, this approach can be unpredictable and difficult to debug. Synchronous concurrency, i...
Jia Zeng, Cristian Soviani, Stephen A. Edwards
CGO
2009
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fast Track: A Software System for Speculative Program Optimization
—Fast track is a software speculation system that enables unsafe optimization of sequential code. It speculatively runs optimized code to improve performance and then checks the ...
Kirk Kelsey, Tongxin Bai, Chen Ding, Chengliang Zh...