Instruction combining is an optimization to replace a sequence of instructions with a more efficient instruction yielding the same result in a fewer machine cycles. When we use it...
A large fraction of an XML document typically consists of text data. The XPath query language allows text search via the equal, contains, and starts-with predicates. Such predicate...
Diego Arroyuelo, Francisco Claude, Sebastian Manet...
Excessive power consumption is becoming a major barrier to extracting the maximum performance from high-performance parallel systems. Therefore, techniques oriented towards reduci...
Single-assignment languages with copy semantics have a very simple and approachable programming model. A na¨ıve implementation of the copy semantics that copies the result of eve...
Inferno is an operating system well suited to applications that need to be portable, graphical, and networked. This paper describes the fundamental
oating point facilities of the...