In this paper we evaluate the atomic region compiler abstraction by incorporating it into a commercial system. We find that atomic regions are simple and intuitive to integrate i...
Naveen Neelakantam, David R. Ditzel, Craig B. Zill...
Advanced Synchronization Facility (ASF) is an AMD64 hardware extension for lock-free data structures and transactional memory. It provides a speculative region that atomically exec...
Jae-Woong Chung, Luke Yen, Stephan Diestelhorst, M...
Speculative compiler optimizations are effective in improving both single-thread performance and reducing power consumption, but their implementation introduces significant compl...
Naveen Neelakantam, Ravi Rajwar, Suresh Srinivas, ...
With the right techniques, multicore architectures may be able to continue the exponential performance trend that elevated the performance of applications of all types for decades...
Arun Raman, Hanjun Kim, Thomas R. Mason, Thomas B....
Thread-level speculation is a technique that enables parallel execution of sequential applications on a multiprocessor. This paper describes the complete implementation of the sup...