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Making the Common Case the Only Case with Anticipatory Memory Allocation
We present Anticipatory Memory Allocation (AMA), a new method to build kernel code that is robust to memoryallocation failures. AMA avoids the usual difficulties in handling allo...
Swaminathan Sundararaman, Yupu Zhang, Sriram Subra...
ISCA
2007
IEEE
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Making the fast case common and the uncommon case simple in unbounded transactional memory
Hardware transactional memory has great potential to simplify the creation of correct and efficient multithreaded programs, allowing programmers to exploit more effectively the s...
Colin Blundell, Joe Devietti, E. Christopher Lewis...
KBSE
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Effective memory protection using dynamic tainting
Programs written in languages that provide direct access to memory through pointers often contain memory-related faults, which may cause non-deterministic failures and even securi...
James A. Clause, Ioannis Doudalis, Alessandro Orso...
HOTOS
2007
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
HotComments: How to Make Program Comments More Useful?
Program comments have long been used as a common practice for improving inter-programmer communication and code readability, by explicitly specifying programmers' intentions ...
Lin Tan, Ding Yuan, Yuanyuan Zhou
ICPP
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Improving Resource Availability by Relaxing Network Allocation Constraints on Blue Gene/P
— High-end computing (HEC) systems have passed the petaflop barrier and continue to move toward the next frontier of exascale computing. As companies and research institutes con...
Narayan Desai, Darius Buntinas, Daniel Buettner, P...