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ASPLOS
2012
ACM
12 years 19 days ago
Data races vs. data race bugs: telling the difference with portend
Even though most data races are harmless, the harmful ones are at the heart of some of the worst concurrency bugs. Alas, spotting just the harmful data races in programs is like ï...
Baris Kasikci, Cristian Zamfir, George Candea
VL
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Evaluating an Automated Tool to Assist Evolutionary Document Generation
While using how-to documents for guidance in performing computer-based tasks, users often run into problems due to inaccurate, out-of-date and incomplete documentation. These prob...
Gahgene Gweon, Lawrence D. Bergman, Vittorio Caste...
FLOPS
2006
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Contracts as Pairs of Projections
Abstract. Assertion-based contracts provide a powerful mechanism for stating invariants at module boundaries and for enforcing them uniformly. In 2002, Findler and Felleisen showed...
Robert Bruce Findler, Matthias Blume
CF
2010
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
EXACT: explicit dynamic-branch prediction with active updates
Branches that depend directly or indirectly on load instructions are a leading cause of mispredictions by state-of-the-art branch predictors. For a branch of this type, there is a...
Muawya Al-Otoom, Elliott Forbes, Eric Rotenberg
ICS
2010
Tsinghua U.
13 years 9 months ago
Handling task dependencies under strided and aliased references
The emergence of multicore processors has increased the need for simple parallel programming models usable by nonexperts. The ability to specify subparts of a bigger data structur...
Josep M. Pérez, Rosa M. Badia, Jesús...