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TORCS: The Open Racing Car Simulator
TORCS is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform. It runs on Linux (x86, AMD64 an...
USENIX
1996
13 years 6 months ago
A Performance Comparison of UNIX Operating Systems on the Pentium
This paper evaluates the performance of three popular versions of the UNIX operating system on the x86 architecture: Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. We evaluate the systems using fre...
Kevin Lai, Mary Baker
CCS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
DieHarder: securing the heap
Heap-based attacks depend on a combination of memory management errors and an exploitable memory allocator. We analyze a range of widely-deployed memory allocators, including thos...
Gene Novark, Emery D. Berger
OSDI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
CP-Miner: A Tool for Finding Copy-paste and Related Bugs in Operating System Code
Copy-pasted code is very common in large software because programmers prefer reusing code via copy-paste in order to reduce programming effort. Recent studies show that copy-paste...
Zhenmin Li, Shan Lu, Suvda Myagmar, Yuanyuan Zhou
ACMMSP
2005
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
A locality-improving dynamic memory allocator
In general-purpose applications, most data is dynamically allocated. The memory manager therefore plays a crucial role in application performance by determining the spatial locali...
Yi Feng, Emery D. Berger