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COMPUTER
2000
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13 years 4 months ago
Making Pointer-Based Data Structures Cache Conscious
Processor and memory technology trends portend a continual increase in the relative cost of accessing main memory. Machine designers have tried to mitigate the effect of this tren...
Trishul M. Chilimbi, Mark D. Hill, James R. Larus
ASPLOS
2008
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Archipelago: trading address space for reliability and security
Memory errors are a notorious source of security vulnerabilities that can lead to service interruptions, information leakage and unauthorized access. Because such errors are also ...
Vitaliy B. Lvin, Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger, Ben...
PLDI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
DieHard: probabilistic memory safety for unsafe languages
Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors ...
Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
CACM
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Exterminator: Automatically correcting memory errors with high probability
Programs written in C and C++ are susceptible to memory errors, including buffer overflows and dangling pointers. These errors, which can lead to crashes, erroneous execution, and...
Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn
PLDI
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Z-rays: divide arrays and conquer speed and flexibility
Arrays are the ubiquitous organization for indexed data. Throughout programming language evolution, implementations have laid out arrays contiguously in memory. This layout is pro...
Jennifer B. Sartor, Stephen M. Blackburn, Daniel F...