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ISCA
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2007
IEEE
Speculative compiler optimizations are effective in improving both single-thread performance and reducing power consumption, but their implementation introduces significant compl...
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
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...
MICRO
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
2010
IEEE
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...
ASPLOS
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2010
ACM
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...
PLDI
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
Multicore designs have emerged as the mainstream design paradigm for the microprocessor industry. Unfortunately, providing multiple cores does not directly translate into performa...