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IWMM
2010
Springer
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The locality of concurrent write barriers
Concurrent and incremental collectors require barriers to ensure correct synchronisation between mutator and collector. The overheads imposed by particular barriers on particular ...
Laurence Hellyer, Richard Jones, Antony L. Hosking
IWMM
2004
Springer
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Write barrier elision for concurrent garbage collectors
Concurrent garbage collectors require write barriers to preserve consistency, but these barriers impose significant direct and indirect costs. While there has been a lot of work ...
Martin T. Vechev, David F. Bacon
POS
1998
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Optimizing the Read and Write Barriers for Orthogonal Persistence
Persistent programming languages manage volatile memory as a cache for stable storage, imposing a read barrier on operations that access the cache, and a write barrier on updates ...
Antony L. Hosking, Nathaniel Nystrom, Quintin I. C...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 3 days ago
Speculative N-Way barriers
Speculative execution is an important technique that has historically been used to extract concurrency from sequential programs. While techniques to support speculation work well ...
Lukasz Ziarek, Suresh Jagannathan, Matthew Fluet, ...
POPL
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Dynamically Checking Ownership Policies in Concurrent C/C++ Programs
Concurrent programming errors arise when threads share data incorrectly. Programmers often avoid these errors by using synchronization to enforce a simple ownership policy: data i...
Jean-Phillipe Martin, Michael Hicks, Manuel Costa,...