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PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Evaluating value-graph translation validation for LLVM
Translation validators are static analyzers that attempt to verify that program transformations preserve semantics. Normalizing translation validators do so by trying to match the...
Jean-Baptiste Tristan, Paul Govereau, Greg Morrise...
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Understanding POWER multiprocessors
Exploiting today’s multiprocessors requires highperformance and correct concurrent systems code (optimising compilers, language runtimes, OS kernels, etc.), which in turn requir...
Susmit Sarkar, Peter Sewell, Jade Alglave, Luc Mar...
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Partial-coherence abstractions for relaxed memory models
Michael Kuperstein, Martin T. Vechev, Eran Yahav
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Languages as libraries
Programming language design benefits from constructs for extending the syntax and semantics of a host language. While C’s stringbased macros empower programmers to introduce no...
Sam Tobin-Hochstadt, Vincent St-Amour, Ryan Culpep...
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Parallelism orchestration using DoPE: the degree of parallelism executive
In writing parallel programs, programmers expose parallelism and optimize it to meet a particular performance goal on a single platform under an assumed set of workload characteri...
Arun Raman, Hanjun Kim, Taewook Oh, Jae W. Lee, Da...
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
Finding and understanding bugs in C compilers
Compilers should be correct. To improve the quality of C compilers, we created Csmith, a randomized test-case generation tool, and spent three years using it to find compiler bug...
Xuejun Yang, Yang Chen, Eric Eide, John Regehr
PLDI
2011
ACM
12 years 7 months ago
A case for an SC-preserving compiler
The most intuitive memory consistency model for shared-memory multi-threaded programming is sequential consistency (SC). However, current concurrent programming languages support ...
Daniel Marino, Abhayendra Singh, Todd D. Millstein...